Louisiana is a city that is largely under water.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.
Rep. Baker of Baton Rouge, NO, to lobbyists

Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?
U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to young evacuees at Reliant Park

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

What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas.
former First Lady Barbara Bush, regarding flood evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston

So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway. This is working very well for them.
more of Barbara Bush at the Astrodome

inspired by my hearing Tavis Smiley speak at UNCG tonight. Most of the talk was about Katrina and the response to the disaster, even though the talk was scheduled months before. I noticed people leaving when he equated what he thought it would take financially to repair New Orleans to a month’s worth troop funding in Iraq