Unthinkable Quotes

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H. L. Mencken

[The United States is unprepared for the next flu pandemic, lacking the manufacturing capacity to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine for three to five more years, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said.] What we all learned from (Hurricane) Katrina is that sometimes we have to think very clearly about the unthinkable... We're not as prepared as we need to be. ...We will not have enough for everyone. - Mike Leavitt

[Perhaps what we can learn from SARS is perspective.] There are very real threats, but they don't always have to follow a Hollywood disaster movie script... Flu epidemics do occur. It's part of our human experience. We've survived it before and we're in a much better position to deal with it now than ever before. We have ways to contain these things that would've been unthinkable even 10 years ago. - Frank Furedi

[HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Standing outside the home where his wife drowned their five children one year ago, Russell Yates said Thursday his entire] family died that day... really did the unthinkable. - Andrea Yates

(But) to allow these men to return to society as if one of the worst massacres of the 20th century never took place -- that's unthinkable. - Sidney Jones