197 Quotes About Emergency

My hope is, and it's a sad way to learn this, that people now understand the importance of a federal emergency response. It's not something you can do on the cheap.

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

We can't expect meaningful federal support to be on the ground providing provisions in an organized manner until probably the seventh day. Our emergency response system is geared toward everyday emergencies, not disasters. ... People need to be able to help themselves.

All the systems on the space station are operating fine. This is a fairly simple emergency plan.

After today (Friday), what we'll do is go back to our regular emergency management system.

The Achilles' heel of emergency management is lack of interoperability.

Fifteen percent is a humanitarian emergency and we are already at 25 percent.

The residents saw a need for some type of emergency response.

It's more than just supporting some emergency funding. We've got to do that. But we've got to do more than that. We've got to be competitive with the rest of the world.