Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Jeff Smith

Unfortunately that hurricane is sitting right on top of my search area.

Michael Fish

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Robert Twilley

New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Diane Swonk

Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

Evan Bayh

What we are seeing in New Orleans is the result of a series of misjudgments and misdirected priorities, that have all produced an increasingly tragic result.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Brian Kern

New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting.

Jarvis Deberry

New Orleans had one of the most rooted populations in the nation.

Mark Smith

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Charles Caleb

The old ways are the safest and surest ways

Jane Austen

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Arthur Schopenhauer

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Steve Hall

We like to say that 'hunting is safe and getting safer' and it really is.

Andy Brooks

We know that Delavan is a safe place, and we want to keep it that way. The system is working well.

Anne Schwartz

We are trying to make the streets safer from this kind of violence.

Sebastian Bellomo

You don't have to worry about safety. It's very safe.

Donna Reed

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donald Trump

Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges. That is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who've come here under this current corrupt administration.

Emilio Zebadua

The story of this storm is not over yet.

Joe Farmer

Tune in to the storm in the morning.

Thomas Fuller

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Kathleen Blanco

We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.

Vernon Howard

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Tobias Smollett

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Neil Gaiman

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

Marcus Garvey

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Max Lucado

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.