By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by mother nature.

In the military as in any organization giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.