Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.
Quotes about preparedness (16 Quotes)
Generally speaking, unless we've had a crisis we don't spend a lot of effort on emergency preparedness. Once we have a problem we ban plastic knives on airplanes, but we tend not to think of the worst-case scenarios because they're too difficult to deal with.
The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.
The actions of our controllers in Atlantic City are a testament to the preparedness and ability of members throughout the Eastern Region and the country. These six controllers demonstrated the kind of disciplined teamwork that averts disaster in a very fast-moving and complex air space system.
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
There's a lot of anxiety (in Europe). The result of this could be that governments might focus on domestic preparedness and forget the fact that ground zero is Southeast Asia.
We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.
We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.
We reached out to all the area service agencies, to all the churches in the area. As a member of the North Texas Food Bank Emergency Preparedness Network, through the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army, through several state and other web sites, through all the hospitals, many know to use our services.
Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.
Many hospital emergency departments in this country are operating at, or over current capacity. We as a nation, have poured millions of dollars into preparedness, but virtually none of that has gone to the one place that is the true first response to something like a flu epidemic, or a hurricane, or a terrorist attack -- the nation's emergency departments.
Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
To address demographic and global economic trends, it's imperative that we act now to ensure that new and existing workers acquire the basic IT skills necessary for work and for continual learning. Through alliances like the one announced with the DOL today, Microsoft believes it can help make a measurable impact on the preparedness of millions of Americans and the ability of U. S. businesses to contribute to and benefit from the knowledge economy.
It was probably just a slip on his part, ... I have no idea what he was thinking or what he was trying to say. If it was any sort of gauge on their preparedness for the game, I think we went ahead and reconfirmed those thoughts out on the football field against them in that bowl game.