Political Quotes

“Hurricane Katrina may be the worst natural disaster in my lifetime, maybe in modern memory. The stories that come back from that hurricane and that disaster are so touching. Today, a man was rescued in his home. It was reported in the news that had he gone another day without water, he would have died. It is amazing that he survived through these weeks since Hurricane Katrina struck. Senator Mary Landrieu, our colleague from Louisiana, came back with so many real-life stories that were so touching. There is one she told me and several others that I repeated back in my home State of Illinois. It is an amazing story about a 65-year-old woman who was living alone in a simple house in New Orleans and had nowhere to go and no way to leave. She thought her little house, which had been through an awful lot, could take whatever God would give, and she was relieved when the hurricane skirted around New Orleans. Within hours, of course, disaster struck in the form of a flood. She told Mary Landrieu, who found her in one of the hospital facilities, that the water just came rushing in, first 4 feet of it, and then more. As it was rising, she was wondering where she would turn. She went through her house and thought maybe, just maybe she could crawl up into the attic. She set a stepladder up in her kitchen, but she did not have the strength to move from her stepladder up into the attic. She could just barely get her head up into the attic.…”