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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist. -- Warren Rudman
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? -- Russ Carnahan
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. -- Jo Bonner
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. -- Jim Wallis
when god did something it become Natural Disaster. when man did the same thing it become TERRORISM! Where is consistency Bitch! -- Vishal Singh
Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed. -- Marco Rubio
Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe. -- Jason Chaffetz
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. -- Vladimir Putin
If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand. -- Marsha Blackburn
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. -- Megan Alexander
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. -- Neal Barnard
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do. -- Nan Hayworth
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. -- Daryn Kagan
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness. -- Petra Nemcova
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better. -- Malcolm Turnbull
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. -- Vito Fossella
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company. -- James Hansen
A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley, -- Alan Autry
I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster. -- Sasha Grey
It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads. -- Jon Porter
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. -- Paul Watson
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity. -- Diane Ackerman
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster. -- Mike Rogers
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. -- Ellen Tauscher
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. -- Karen DeCrow
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much. -- Diane Ackerman
On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying. -- Nelson Mandela
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do. -- Warren Rudman
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency. -- Chris Chocola
We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East. -- Peter Menzel
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. -- Godfried Danneels
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. -- Barack Obama
This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda. Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others. -- Pope Francis
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love. -- Jeff Greenfield
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history. -- Douglas Brinkley
Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy. -- Santosh Kalwar
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution -- Chuck Palahniuk
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. -- Douglas Brinkley
This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster. -- Janet Fitch
In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices. -- Joan Didion
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter, -- Katherine Paterson
All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars. -- Simon Jenkins
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary. -- R. L. Stine
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know. -- Henry Rollins
It doesn't take a miracle or a natural disaster to live in the world that you're after, the change is gonna happen to you -- Michael Tolcher
People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery. -- Tom Stoppard
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. -- Leon Panetta
FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy. -- Alcee Hastings
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. -- Wayne LaPierre
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless. -- Bart Stupak
Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,. -- Charlie Crist
I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do. -- Beyonce Knowles
Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010. -- Reba McEntire

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