PEARLS OF WISDOM

“YEARS OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE COME AND YEARS OF FLOOD AND FAMINE COME, AND THE CLIMATE IS NOT CHANGED WITH DANCE, LIBATION OR PRAYER.”

JOHN WESLEY POWELL

former U.S. soldier, geologist

“CLIMATE IS ALWAYS EVOLVING, AND NATURAL DISASTERS HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED.”

MARCO RUBIO

American politician and attorney

“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

former American attorney and Republican politician