43 Quotes by Warren Rudman

Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

If we have a disaster -- and we think it is quite probable in the next 20-25 years -- we're not prepared to deal with it,

He was somewhat of an enigma to many people. I'm not so sure he didn't get along, he just didn't mix a lot with people. He didn't seem to have a lot of friends.

Really, politics should stop at the door of that committee. I don't know whether Roberts is right or Rockefeller is right. But I do know that when you lose bipartisan oversight by that committee, you lose something very, very important.