Christian Bale Quotes

Opinions on bomb shelters are personal. As for myself, I do not think I would care to be alive when all of the birds, animals, trees, houses and buildings were gone in those places where I had lived.

After a nuclear attack, there will be a short period before fall-out starts to descend. Use this time to do essential things.

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.

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

I've got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, 'cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.

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.

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

The pen is not mightier than the sword; and mightier than either, and more necessary, is the hoe.

Duck and Cover

I don’t do apocalypse!

In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

We deal with emergencies on a regular basis out here in the Plain States.

You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

Land!” shouted Thomas. “Is there food?” asked Tubby Ted.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

What we have is a great number of people working extremely hard to make sure that death number stays where it is and the people that have to go to shelters are taken care of tonight and for as many days as it takes and that we support our first responders that are out there keeping security.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

Make the best of an emergency.

The Department of Homeland Security recommends a three-day supply of water consisting of one bottle per day for each person in your home. Plus one extra bottle to give you all something to kill each other over on day four.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.