“The lesson of disasters, natural and manmade, is that we generally rebuild more or less what was there. The reasons for this are probably mainly pragmatic (existing property ownership, buried infrastructure) but also perhaps sentimental: the urge to recreate what had been destroyed, to rebuild the world we knew.”
Witold Rybczynski
“I don't think the city has done nearly enough for disasters --manmade or natural. In the wake of Katrina I want to take a look at our evacuations at our ability to transport the elderly and infirm ... at triage possibilities.”
Jack Weiss
“It also pays dividends for our state. When we have some type of national disaster or a manmade disaster, we can get video fairly quickly.”
Charles Morgan
“Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.”
Laurence Gonzales
“There's no reason why you couldn't have sandwich shops and bait shops all around that area. This is about rebuilding a tax base that is gone, and this is certainly a fast way to start bringing it back.”
Chris LaGarde
“And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.”
David Letterman
“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”
David K Shipler
