Rapid Response Quotes

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

In 2009, when I was Health Minister, we re-engineered our business processes to examine the weaknesses and opportunities in our health system. Following that exercise, we established a public health emergency management system from national to district level to prevent and provide rapid response to outbreaks.

I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.

The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

I like the feeling when you don't have much time and you have to think fast.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.

We’ve got to learn to govern in Internet time.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

The winner of the next war will be he who learns the most and learns the fastest.

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

The President knows that if this country needed a million men, and needed them in a day, the call would go out at sunrise and the sun would go down on a million men in arms.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

We are the nation’s force in readiness…. We are the nation’s expeditionary force.