Warren Rudman Disaster Quotations

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.

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

If we have a disaster -- and we think it is quite probable in the next 20-25 years -- we're not prepared to deal with it,

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, .. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.