“If you’ll look at my lovely FEMA attire you’ll really vomit. I
am a fashion god� Anything specific I need to do or tweak? Do
you know of anyone who dog-sits? � Can I quit now? Can I
come home? � I’m trapped now, please rescue me.”
Ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown, in various emails to colleagues
and friends in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina“Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans,
virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going
relatively well.”
FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005“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 evacuees at
the Astrodome in Houston, 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,
Sept. 9, 2005
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