Andrew Cuomo Quotes

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

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

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

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

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.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

We've tried to get as much supply into California as we can.

And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

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.

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

The nation’s disaster mechanisms do not seem to be in the hands of those who know how to use them.

In our government we drive decisions either by leadership of by crises. If the leadership is not there, we rely on crises.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help their citizens.

In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.