"Report is one thing, permission is another. If we get into permission matters, the supersized disaster we are talking about will be supersized repeated."
"There is no way to argue that we can ease up on Louisiana and Mississippi a little bit; because we have been at this for a long time."
"Half a billion is on appeal, at least $3 billion is in dispute, and the notion that we would even discuss with FEMA things like ALJs..."
"With a new administration, I think it is a fair to ask, are you, Mr. Fugate, in light of the broad bipartisan criticisms of FEMA since Hurricane Katrina...would not a wholesale overhaul of the Agency ..."
"We need to get all of that extra help that you gave to Louisiana and Mississippi, and they will do it."
"you don't want Congress twice revisiting. Then you get us really mad, and you lose authority"
"What is a catastrophic disaster? Note that word: 'catastrophic disaster.' Think of it as a new invention."
"What did we learn from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from other disasters in the United States and around the world?"
"We cannot sit by and really hope that outsized disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 will never occur again."
"I was concerned that the inauguration was so big this time that there was, at first, the notion that the Reserves should be under some dual command."
"the armed forces of the United States constitutionally is under the Commander in Chief, and that constitutional barrier is of some interest to us."