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The enthusiasm and preparedness of our presenters sealed the deal.

Steve Marshall

Our campaign continues on family and personal preparedness. Be prepared to sustain yourself for five to seven days.

Gary Brown

There are a lot of much bigger public issues than year 2000 preparedness, and I think that certainly has an impact on the way it has been handled.

Russell Brown

It was probably the best disaster preparedness effort (Marin County's) ever seen. We're all better prepared for the next earthquake because of it.

Jennifer Rienks

They help us with emergency preparedness and help us plan how to respond and know what we have to do to respond.

Tom Sherman

Well I think there's going to be a lot of lessons learned, ... but I think that the preparedness, the individual to take responsibility to become prepared himself. And to realize that the government can't always help him.

David Davis

When I asked for that prepayment, I asked for that to assist our members with back to school expenses and hurricane preparedness. We asked the Government to consider it being paid at the end of August before school had re-opened.

John Pinder

They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.

Lawrence Andreas

I think only Rip Van Winkle would be able to ignore the wake-up call that Hurricane Katrina offers with regard to emergency preparedness.

Thomas Hamilton

We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.

Steve Bolman

We need a real citizen preparedness plan ? one that takes care of children, the elderly and the disabled, ... Mothers and grandmothers should not drown in nursing homes because help never arrived.

Bennie Thompson

The most important thing I want to get from that is 'What's the preparedness of the federal government now?' Can we expect the same response that we had in 2004? To say it won't be as bad as last year doesn't really make me feel good.

Bob Lay

You clearly did your duty as law enforcement, but the question comes to bear about the interface between emergency preparedness and our first responders locally. We want to make sure there is intercommunication between agencies.

Sen. Donald Defronzo

This initiative will ensure that all town residents with disabilities will be included in our emergency preparedness plan.

Barbara Carpenter

There's a lot of anxiety (in Europe). The result of this could be that governments might focus on domestic preparedness and forget the fact that ground zero is Southeast Asia.

Peter Cordingley

The critical point is not our preparedness -- the critical point is the cooperation of the Government of Pakistan at the borders.

Ruud Lubbers

There are many professional organizations for police and fire. This is a professional organization that hosts a conference for emergency managers to discuss preparedness at all levels.

Andrew Velazquez

The Yale Center will collaborate with other CDC Public Health Preparedness Centers in order to maximize resources and disseminate new information pertaining to emergency preparedness and response.

Brian Leaderer

It is unacceptable that out of the most developed countries, Britain was one of the last to order anti-viral agents and publish an emergency preparedness plan.

Andrew Lansley

Many hospital emergency departments in this country are operating at, or over current capacity. We as a nation, have poured millions of dollars into preparedness, but virtually none of that has gone to the one place that is the true first response to something like a flu epidemic, or a hurricane, or a terrorist attack -- the nation's emergency departments.

Dr. Frederick Blum

Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.

Dr. Julie Gerberding

This program allows lenders to build a risk preparedness model to respond to future disasters. In addition, the graphical representation allows managers to quickly assess and communicate the risk to their business in the event of a disaster.

Scott Shaw

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clinic and drills like these help us work even closer with the emergency agencies to build a closer, more effective relationship.

Mary Austin

The government has worked hard to strengthen preparedness and prevention efforts and good progress has been made.

Dida Connor

This bill fits very nicely into the theme that the governor has been pounding, and it comes down to one simple message about preparedness. It's up to you.

Bill Herrle

BYU is probably one of the most progressive forces in Utah County for earthquake preparedness. I'm not concerned as much about the buildings on BYU campus as I am about the buildings most of the BYU students live in.

Aaron Harris

In many ways, this is a test of our national capacity, ... If we can't do this 24-7-365, we aren't doing our job for preparedness.

James Carafano

Their preparedness to become citizens, in keeping with the language requirement as well.

Tony Mcnulty

The latter implies emergency preparedness planning, legal and administrative frameworks, awareness campaigns and education, and the development of the operational capabilities to act in an emergency.

Patricio Bernal

The condition now is what we call organized chaos. There's a lot of activity … but it's all associated with good preparedness.

Chris Neudeck

We did this program with Allentown and Easton. We are so pleased Bethlehem wanted to join. Now it will be region-wide, which will be great for emergency preparedness.

Brit Weber

We've been stressing mental preparedness. And mental things lose game like this.

Pat Purcell

We do a lot of emergency preparedness work for families and communities on how to prepare for disaster. Our plan is mirrored after the national plan from the Bureau of Homeland Security.

Jackie Frey

The way it's best described is DHS is the conductor of an orchestra. All of these partners ... are the various musicians playing beautiful music together creating a symphony of preparedness. We've made great progress.

George Foresman

North Carolina's emergency preparedness system is one of the best in the nation. North Carolina's emergency management team has been very proactive and this is yet another means for them to solidify our and planning preparation.

Marc Basnight

I would like to see a new national discussion about what prepared means, how it's measured and what we should expect. Since 9-11, the nation has spent tens of billions of dollars on preparedness, yet we can account for very little and can hardly say what actually has been accomplished.

Irwin Redlener

Our primary concern relates to the total lack of focus on natural-hazards preparedness.

David Liebersbach

We have not reached the level of (vaccination) preparedness that we should have.

Markos Kyprianou

Preparedness is the only way we can combat a natural disaster.

John Quinlan

I would think that any disaster preparedness center would address the needs of those who are most vulnerable. That was not the case here.

Stephen Thomas

This is a very important group that works toward insuring preparedness and working with local governments on preparedness-related issues.

Andrew Velazquez

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

Hermann Goering

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Markos Kyprianou

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.

Mary Austin

The lesson I learned from this one is not so much in the details of the network design or preparedness, but the issues we dealt with in facing a situation with civil unrest and security issues for our employees.

Bill Smith

Giant does not have a formal pandemic preparedness plan. The feeling is that we have enough employees -- we have over 25,000 employees. If the need arose, we could move these employees around quite a bit to wherever the greatest operational need within the company would be to keep our stores open.

Jamie Miller

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

Bill Frist

Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of the importance of preparedness.

Mufi Hannemann

We will immediately put in action a preparedness plan for this kind of situation.

Leif Denneberg

FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore.

Joanna Gonzalez

Certainly we know we've got a lot more to do, but this marks a significant advancement forward for preparedness in Arizona.

David Engelthaler