09/04/2002
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Part of the reason I've come down here...was to better understand how the Federal Government can plan and surge equipment, to mitigate natural disasters."
"We want to do what we can to prevent something like what happened in terms of the response with Katrina from ever happening again."
"I don't know how many sorties were flown in Katrina, but there must have been thousands of sorties."
"It's an extraordinary circumstance that you're talking about."