02/27/2004
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We have seen our fellow citizens left stunned and uprooted and witnessed the kind of desperation no citizen of this great and generous Nation should ever have to know."
"Now is the time to rise above this legacy of inequality."
"Victims of Katrina need to know they are not alone."
"We must have plans to evacuate large numbers of people in an emergency and to provide food, water, and security as needed."