Craig Fugate

What happened in Jackson is not an exception, but an indicator for future failures.

We have to really be stringent in making sure that we rebuild to much higher standards, not just put it back the way it was.

We are no longer dealing with cyber hackers, we are dealing with nation sponsorship.

Why does it take us a decade when insurance companies are in and out in less than a year?

Get the money there in the first year of recovery, not 5 years later while we are still trying to make sure the answer is perfect.

The most important thing is we`ve got to quit rebuilding stuff the way it was in these disasters and build it back for the future, and focus on the risk we`re facing, not what we`ve been facing in the past.

We’ve got to stop looking backwards. The whole idea of a 100 year event is it’s something that’s a one percent risk based on weather patterns in the past.

We need to come out of this pandemic and put people to work that haven`t had jobs to get our economy going.

This is costing us. And that we shouldn`t be building things to get damaged and have to be repaired again with taxpayers monies. Let`s fix it right the first time.

Why are we outsourcing those supplies that are critical to key infrastructures that we need to have up and running?

It is critical that we build in funds for resilience on the front-end of these federal investments.

A slow or weak pulse, like a tax base below the cost of running the community's government, will impede the recovery after a disaster.

We need to get stronger building codes and land use planning, and then we need to start looking at--it will not be an equal impact with climate change across the country.

The climate has changed and we are seeing more climate driven extreme weather events.

Time has run out for debate, action is required.

If you look at what the backlog currently nationally of infrastructure projects and you look at mitigation and what it would take for predisaster mitigation to adapt, you are talking a trillion or more dollars.

Measuring the Resilience of a community's tax base is a key vital sign of vulnerability to climate change impacts.

As much as we think we are sophisticated with technology, things break. Seeing how amateur radio in a disaster, in a crisis, oftentimes was the one thing that was still up and running, a ham transmitting can mean the difference between…

Finally, I have got to get back to Amateur Radio. . .They are the first ones in the first days getting the word out as the other systems come back up. I think that there is a tendency (to believe) that we have done so much to build…

If we come in with too heavy of a stick in the aftermath of a disaster, there is not the political will to hold fast.

We are not going to let survivors suffer because of decisions State and local governments did or didn't make.

under the Constitution, it was yours in the first place. It is up to the discretion of the President to even declare a disaster.

First and foremost, emergency management should never be partisan, but disasters will always get politicized.

We got to quit subsidizing risk below which behavior will change, and the Flood Insurance Program is basically designed at too low a point.