Political Quotes

“reflect for a moment on what America went through with Hurricane Katrina, reflect on what it has meant to our country and what it has meant to our Government. That was the greatest natural disaster of modern time. Americans were shaken to the core watching television night after night to see victims of Hurricane Katrina and what they were living through. Many of those scenes we witnessed did not look like America. It just doesn't seem like our great Nation where people would be in such a helpless and almost hopeless state--to find people struggling just to survive the floodwaters and the hurricane damage, to see Americans begging for water and food, to see what appeared to be refugees--in fact, evacuees--trying to bring their children across interstate bridges to dry land, to see people thrown in many different directions, families divided and still not united. To see all of that occur day in and day out 24-7 was a startling scene. It was an indication to all of us that we needed to take a step back and take a look at America from a different angle. Perhaps too many of us had been lulled into the belief that this sort of thing could never happen, that leaders in America would never let us reach this terrible point, whether it is a natural disaster or a terrorist disaster, that someone somewhere in Washington or in a State capital or in a city hall had not made preparations and plans to deal with it.…”