Sharad Pawar Quotes

Disasters impel a nation to rise

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

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

Without unity, the country will face disaster.

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

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

Having worked in disasters, I have seen that, in those critical first few hours, those first few days - so much ends up riding on you and your neighbor and whoever is around. The official response always comes later, and it always feels like it comes too slow.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

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.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

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

Assure personal survival in any kind of disaster.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

Nations in great crises and difficulties have often done that which in their prosperous and powerful hour they would not have done.

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.