Mike Pence Quotes

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

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.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

After the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show our support for the Japanese people.

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

My position is not designed to win votes. It is designed to address itself to what I think is a problem of crisis proportions. I believe that when you are facing that kind of emergency, you have to be willing to prescribe some pretty tough action.

As with most politicians, it took a disaster for them to do something.

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that?

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.

Public safety and emergency preparedness is essential.

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.

Access to humanitarian assistance and information are all the more important during the Covid-19 pandemic.

NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.

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.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

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.