Tim Kaine Quotes

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

As with most politicians, it took a disaster for them to do something.

Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

If this summer is especially bad a crisis mentality will take over and Congress will want to pass legislation to show that they're on top of the situation.

The actions you plan to take and the actions you actually decide to take [in a crisis] are not always the same.

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

Congress doesn’t act unless there is an emergency.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.

If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.

When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you want to end up? What's your endgame? We try to start from that and work ourselves back.

My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.