Better Quote by Miroslav Lajcak

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves…

— Seth Shostak

By removing at-risk structures and taking other steps to mitigate the impacts of flooding, we make our communities safer and avoid repetitive repair costs…

— Phil Scott

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…

— Petra Nemcova

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with…

— David Plouffe

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could…

— Tom Rooney

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent…

— Jan Schakowsky

Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.

— Barry Gardiner

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping…

— Zhou Shengxian

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer…

— Jim Schwab

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

— Steve Scalise

As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits…

— Anonymous

We've had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, 'What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real…

— Marco Rubio