Katrina Quotes
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The Katrina matter was terrible.
Pat Robertson -
I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds.
Hal Rogers
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
Ben Bernanke -
The message from officials is that the impact from Katrina will be limited.
Ian Stannard -
This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita to try and push their special-interest agenda through Congress. We need to address our energy needs, but we don't need to jeopardize our environment and economy to do it, and we shouldn't use a national tragedy as cover for bad policy.
Lois Capps -
I resolved really early on about Katrina, there'll be some lemonade coming out of it. Like this right here.
Allen Toussaint -
We're kind of scurrying around. It's very fluid. Certainly this has gotten all of the nursing home profession's attention after Katrina, and so everybody's making plans to evacuate. But there are a lot of difficulties on having enough resources for transportation.
Matt Robinson -
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Well, there's Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there's people living in it.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
The belief is that after Katrina makes landfall, it will move north to the Tennessee Valley and then northeast through the Ohio Valley and onto eastern Canada.
Bob Larson -
I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I've been home schooled, which was interesting.
Israel Broussard -
We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.
Jimmy Carter -
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
Elizabeth Edwards -
I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
Michael Chertoff