Robin Sloan Quotes

Emergency does not read the law.

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

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

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

911 rings at the mayor’s office, not at the Justice Department or the White House.

You take care of emergencies first—in life and in politics.

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

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

My position is not designed to win votes. It is designed to address itself to what I think is a problem of crisis proportions. I believe that when you are facing that kind of emergency, you have to be willing to prescribe some pretty tough action.

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that?

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

My purpose is to make sure that we protect every American, wherever that American is, and if an American is calling out for help, whether it's in Benghazi or at the border, then we ought to be able to answer it.

I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.