Emerge Quotes

You've got an emergency. Let's address the emergency. Let's go to the other things that are more difficult later. - John Dingell

You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this. - Mike Huckabee

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings. - Suze Orman

Your failure to plan ahead does not consitute an emergency on my part. - Unknown

You'll have innovators and entrepreneurs and people trying ideas that may seem sensible today or may seem way out. But out of that whole soup will emerge some new ways of doing things. - Daniel Yergin

You would think four years after 9-11, with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness, that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government. - Susan Collins

You want to have a highly competent control team, not just operationally but technologically, that can set up the exercise and devise the scenarios while keeping the normal group completely in the dark about what's going on. That independence ensures that the emergency team is not over-prepared and ready with all the right answers. You want them to be surprised because that's how it could be during the real event. - Bob Cass

You see, I get it when it comes to incident command systems... I get it when it comes to emergency management. I know what it's all about. - Michael Brown

You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pictures of starving babies. What we're seeing, emergency after emergency, is that the international community does not get mobilized before there is an actual crisis. - Marina Ottaway