Greg Iles Quotes

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 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.

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.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

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

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

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.

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

As you prepare for the many things that fall brings, such as school, harvest and winter, it is important to be prepared for the unthinkable. Supplies and a plan will significantly reduce panic and chaos in the event of an emergency.

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

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.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The safety of the people is the first and foremost responsibility of government… We are not as prepared as we should be with our public safety network…. The margin for error is exceedingly and uniquely low.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

Security and safety are very important for us.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.