"That they're engaging in the kind of partisan election-year politics that has caused so many Americans to lose faith in the direction of our government."
"That's a colossal waste of taxpayer money and a colossal failure to help the people who really need the housing."
"What was going on with FEMA? This is another in some ways, yet more outrageous example of what happens when your Federal Emergency Management Agency doesn't prepare."
"People who do this, with all respect, they have to be held accountable."
"Short-term, there must have been -- first up, they shouldn't have bought these things if they had looked at their own regulations."
"I think we are better prepared because of the powerful lessons and embarrassment that the federal government suffered. Are we totally prepared? Or are we as prepared as we should be? I regret to say, ..."
"They went to sleep Monday night, as Secretary Chertoff said, thinking New Orleans had dodged the bullet. Meantime, in New Orleans, the poor people are drowning."
"Did you tell Mr. Hagin in that phone call that New Orleans was flooding?"
"Republican Susan Collins, chair of that committee, and Joseph Lieberman, its ranking Democrat wrote to the White House weeks ago to complain that most of the documents the panel requested had not been..."
"The Department of Homeland Security has engaged in a strategy of slow-walking our investigation, in the hope that we would run out of time."
"Among the offices receiving that memo was the White House Situation Room, which received it at 1:47 a.m. on Monday, August 29, several hours before Katrina made landfall. What happened to that report?"