30 Quotes by Peter May

Disasters -- flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on -- have a schizophrenic political life, ... Before, or between, events you don't have people marching on city hall or state capitol steps saying, 'Save us from the hurricane, earthquake etc.'

You don't want it to be an open-ended handout. You want to create incentives for people to act wisely.

The federal role is being called on in ways that certainly the Republican Party has not traditionally endorsed.

How far should public officials go in protecting somewhat indifferent citizens who have other concerns?

You can't take the politics out of disasters. That's what politicians are supposed to do: serve their constituents.

I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.

Now he was learning again how easy it was to be lonely in a crowd.