Dan Quayle Quotes

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

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

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

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

Anything you say before a pandemic occurs sounds alarmist; anything you say after it occurs is inadequate.

In life, you don't really know what's coming at you. Like a firefighter, or police officer, or anyone else working in the emergency field, they don't know what's going to come at them. You gotta be ready for anything.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

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.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

To prepare for a disaster, practice the worst case scenario. We don’t usually do that.

There is nothing we can do to assure that this will never happen, but there is a lot we can do to assure that it happens more rarely.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

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

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

In the military, we have known for decades, if not centuries, that the time to prepare, whether it's for a hurricane, a typhoon or strategic changes, is before they hit you

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.

I think the hardest thing that, historically, the industry may have relied upon is that we can't control weather, we can't control air traffic control, and use that at the end of the day as an excuse. Things do happen - we know they happen. We don't exactly know when they are going to happen, but we should definitely be prepped.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

We must prepare for everything.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

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

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.