Rich Froning Jr. Quotes

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.

But this is sports entertainment, so things can change on a daily basis. For that reason you have to be ready to go at any time.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

As you prepare for the many things that fall brings, such as school, harvest and winter, it is important to be prepared for the unthinkable. Supplies and a plan will significantly reduce panic and chaos in the event of an emergency.

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.