Crisis Mitigation Quotes

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

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?

Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.

Unilateralism in secret is sometimes necessary at the height of a crisis.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

All that can be done is to play for time to save the country from further shocks that might destroy it entirely.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

The actions you plan to take and the actions you actually decide to take [in a crisis] are not always the same.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I will take personal responsibility for transporting the 20,000 ventilators anywhere in this country that they want, once we are past our apex. But don't leave them sitting in a stockpile, and say well we're going to wait and see how we allocate them across the country.

Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for 'de-confliction' in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.