Quotes by Irwin Redlener

About Irwin Redlener:

Irwin Redlener is a pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children, health care reform, and disaster planning, response, and recovery. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now (Knopf, 2006)
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

Irwin Redlener

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

Irwin Redlener

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

Irwin Redlener

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

Irwin Redlener

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

Irwin Redlener

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

Irwin Redlener

Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

Irwin Redlener

President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

Irwin Redlener

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Irwin Redlener

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

Irwin Redlener

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

Irwin Redlener

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Irwin Redlener

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

Irwin Redlener

Author Bio

  • NameIrwin Redlener
  • DescriptionAmerican activist
  • BornAugust 12, 1944
  • ProfessionPhysician