As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck. |
He said that the problem was in planning, not in execution, ... The weight of the evidence is that it was both. |
I didn't want to have anybody with me, ... I was perfectly happy just by myself but they thought it was too risky. I regret that there was any need to have anybody there. |
I have said $225 billion, ... These are not unrealistic numbers. |
I imagine there are some people who want to see more [religious] freedom in China. We're trying to work with the freedom that we have. |
I tell folks all the time, I'm glad I was able to start out my life like that, but I'm also glad it's over, |
I think it is unrealistic to appropriate $10 billion, $30 billion at a time, ... It's important to talk about the big number up front. |
I was intending to go to my neighborhood for sure if I could get there. I didn't know what the condition was, ... I was curious to know and everybody in my family was curious to know: What was the condition of our house? Was it underwater? Was it looted? |
I was worried early on in the process. My hope is that it isn't powerful enough to do the damage it could do if it were open-ended. |
I've just announced at a press conference that we're probably going to lose all services over night: sewage, drainage, water, etc., ... I cannot issue a mandatory. I do not have the resources to enforce it. However, I've just made the strongest message possible, and we will have police vehicles and fire vehicles going throughout Jefferson Parish with broadcasting advising people to leave now. |
If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place. |
It will allow Entergy to pick up money in the tax code that they couldn't get through direct appropriation. |
It's a very unique opportunity to learn about Bibles in China and a lot of the history ... and what the churches are facing now in China. There's never been anything like it. |
It's an indictment of our whole society, that at the bottom of the rungs all the time are poor African-Americans. |
Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this, |