These have been culled from "Dumb Quotes about Hurricane Katrina," which you can find
here.
"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay
in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many
of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway
so this (chuckle) - this is working very well for them." -Former First
Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston
Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005.
"Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" -House Majority
Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New
Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston.
"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it,
but God did." -Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the
Wall Street Journal
"We just learned of the convention center - we being the federal
government - today." -FEMA Director Michael Brown, to ABC's Ted Koppel,
Sept. 1, 2005, to which Koppel responded " Don't you guys watch
television? Don't you guys listen to the radio? Our reporters have been
reporting on it for more than just today."