“Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being breached in New Orleans, even though he had been briefed by federal government experts nearly a day and a half before Hurricane Katrina made landfall that those levees could indeed be breached by the hurricane surge,”
Ken Salazar
“There's a recognition that the New Orleans housing stock is really pretty sturdy, and there should not be the necessity for wholesale demolition once thought. I think that as the hysteria subsides along with the water, there will be a lot more rational decisions made.”
Camille Strachan
“New Orleans was not healthful, not a positive place for me to be.”
Courtney Thirsty
“I don't know what planet Mr Downer is on, but he's not on planet New Orleans,”
Kevin Rudd
“This is one of those stories that came out of the devastation of New Orleans that has not been widely told by the media.”
Bill Cosby
“First of all, we're going to stop using [the word] 'devastating' because it's not devastating. New Orleans is devastating. We have Florida coming in now. This is not the end of the world. I'll be out there. This team will be out there. And we'll play hard like we did [Wednesday].”
Billy Wagner
“It would be nice if a federal agency would subsidize it. We're not just important to New Orleans, we're important to the world.”
Benjamin Jaffe
