The current structure of FEMA is not going to allow anyone to succeed. It just cannot be done. |
The federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.... Now is not the time to be blaming. |
the first few days were a natural disaster. The last four days were a man-made disaster. |
The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama, |
the single largest mobilization of emergency response and recovery resources in history. |
The supply and demand balance just doesn't exist right now. I've been looking at the listing services to see where the market might be headed but there's no consistency. |
The total lack of communication. The inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was occurring there, ... We had to actually take teams out yesterday because of the dangerous situation they were in. That's very frustrating not only to me but those teams. Those medical teams want to help save lives and the thugs and the others that are causing the problem are actually making it more difficult. So we had to pull them out for a while. They want to go back in. They're going back in. |
the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there. |
The worst impact was down in North Carolina along the Outer Banks, ... We've had 4,000 people or so who didn't evacuate; a lot of building collapses, urban search-and-rescue teams in there. |
There are certain jobs in government that shouldn’t be political trinkets, ... But FEMA has never been a first responder agency, and they never built themselves up as that. |
There are few cities with so many good as New Orleans and also few cities where there is such a stark coexistence with the bad. It is this city, the Big Easy, that is home to kind and generous and Christian people . . . and yet also this city that has allowed evil to flourish in a way that has become truly dangerous, |
There are lots of contests that give away prizes and money, but we wanted a contest that would change someone's life. |
There is a certain anarchist strain running through the Internet that questions, 'Why shouldn't everything belong to everyone? |
There is no other government agency that reaches people in a more direct way, ... It has been the best job in the world to help Americans in their darkest hours. |
There is no question in my mind, that at the highest levels of the White House they understood how grave the situation was. |