“We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.”
Andy Kopplin
“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
“We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.”
Chris Houston
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“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
“The first priority that we are all focused on is people, ... Over time we are going to have to rebuild the economy of the Gulf Coast. We have to get momentum into what was once a very vibrant economy. Ultimately, what we have, if we look long-term, is the highest opportunity economically in the country once we get through the phase of helping people of cleaning up the city. The more we can help entrepreneurs to reinvest in this area, the sooner we will get to the point, as President Bush said, of making this an even better place than it once was.”
Carlos Gutierrez
“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”
David K Shipler
