Bill Clinton Quotes

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

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.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

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

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

Always have a backup plan.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

In the military we plan for the worst case, because we have learned that if you do not, you will be surprised.

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

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

You can’t prepare for the best case; you have to prepare for the worst case.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

Terrible things happen all of the time, and they can happen in a second. The best thing is to be prepared to react. If you try to control every little thing, you're going to end up miserable - and you're going to fail.

I'm always prepared for the worst.

We must prepare for everything.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

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

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.