Quotes about hurricane aftermath12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() 2, 2005ħ) "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR's "All Things Considered," Sept. 1, 2005Ħ) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." –President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring Hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005ĥ) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) -President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house - he's lost his entire house - there's going to be a fantastic house. The good news is - and it's hard for some to see it now - that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. ![]() 5, 2005ģ) "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level.It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed." –House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Aug 31, 2005Ĥ) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane KatrinaĢ) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. 1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." –President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. ![]()
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