I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.
Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have the technology, and it's in part preventable because it's predictable.
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.
Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.
If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.
