“By no means would we send people to a disaster shelter that was not ready to accept them.”
Bruce Carter
“I hope people don't . . . play politics during this period of time. This is a natural disaster – the likes of which our country may have never seen before – and it's a national emergency. And what we need to do as a nation is come together to solve the problem and not play politics. There'll be ample time for politics.”
Mr Bush
“People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.”
Larry Sabato
“I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster that the emergency relief went better than we feared but the reconstruction and rebuilding is taking more time than we hoped. There was no second wave of death and disease as was feared but too many people have their first anniversary in the same tent they were given in the first months.”
Jan Egeland
“People are being generous and I want them to but every penny that comes in here marked disaster goes to disaster. We don't keep anything locally for overhead. It all goes to disaster.”
Salvation Army
“People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.”
Michael Brown
“Taking advantage of people during a disaster is a horrible act. Any person or business attempting to unfairly profit from the suffering of hurricane victims will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Violators will go to jail,”
Jim Hood
