Katrina Quotes - Page 2

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

  Ike Skelton

  Home, Suffering, Emergencies

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• There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

  George W. Bush

  Running, New Orleans, People

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mother, Baby, Cutting

  Jesmyn Ward (2012). “Salvage the Bones”, p.262, A&C Black

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• For me, Katrina was my first trip back to the United States, but the most important thing, it showed everything that I had seen in other places. As I've said before, it looked like a bomb had hit a lot of places. I'd never seen such force, and it was Mother Nature.

  Stanley Greene

  Mother, Important, Mother Nature

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

  Desmond Tutu

  American Society

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• For me what was amazing was consumerism of people survived after Katrina. You see in a yard that the SUV is gone but they left the Ferrari or the more expensive car because it just wasn't practical. They couldn't get all their stuff in it. So you see this beautiful car totally destroyed; motorcycles. You walk into these houses - we were with the New Orleans police when they would go into the houses - we'd go through these houses and we were just amazed at how much stuff that had been accumulated and how much was left behind.

  Stanley Greene

  Beautiful, Car, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

  Dave Reichert

  Faith, Men, People

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• As George Bush's infamous for once saying by mistake, he said, "Mother Nature is a terrorist." So it was with Katrina - the devastation of it, when you think of bombs being dropped on people and then you think that a hurricane could come through and do that, the same amount of damage, it was a wake-up call in a lot of ways.

  Stanley Greene

  Mother, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

  Bill McKibben

  Doors, Als, Gore

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• If you consider that there are a million people forced out of their homes by Katrina, multiply that by 150, and then stick those people in countries who, as inconceivable as it seems, are less prepared than we were to deal with the whole thing.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Home, People

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Atlanta is a big market for me. They've always supported my music. They took care of my people during Hurricane Katrina, so I love them and I love my fans. And to be able to help and motivate the next generation, I feel like this is the place to do it.

  Master P

  Atlanta, People, Fans

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone in New Orleans was a monster, in the immediate aftermath more than 200,000 people invite displaced strangers into their homes through hurricanehousing.org and an uncounted horde go to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to give, to love, to be in solidarity, and to rebuild.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Beautiful, Home, New Orleans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hurt, Party, Arrogance

  "Dawn of a Newt Age" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

  Donna Brazile

  Republican, Democrat

  Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8th, 2008.

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• The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts", www.nytimes.com. September 13, 2005.

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• The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

  Richard E. Besser

  Events, Lessons, Pay

  Source: content.time.com

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• Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Real, Names, Oil

  "Katrina’s Real Name" by Ross Gelbspan, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2005.

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• Louisiana taught me another level of humility. Everyone is so content, not socially content but spiritually. Everyone is happy with who they are and loves their city regardless of what has happened here with Katrina and all the different stories. They have a sense of pride and it really rubbed off on me.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Humility, Pride, Cities

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.

  Van Jones

  Color, Organization, Community

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

  Alcee Hastings

  Flames, California, Judging

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• The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.

  Dan Hampton

  Needs, Towns, Vikings

  "Gay Group Calls for Football Hall of Famer to Apologize Over 'Brokeback' Comment". www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2010.

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• There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there

  Michael Richards

  Country, Vegas, New Orleans

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.

  Tim McGraw

  Heartbroken, Home, Sadness

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• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Rick Renzi

  Summer, America, Energy

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