Stuart Rothenberg Quotes

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

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

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

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

Commander in Chief of Disasters.

In the pandemonium of the crisis in New Orleans, somehow getting people on busses took priority over keeping them alive.

Reform comes in the wake of disaster.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.

Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn't able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come - it was a mess.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —

I'm planning a catastrophe.

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