Firefighter Quotations

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

Firefighters don't go on strike.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.