Some of these are way out there.  I'll post these sans my opinions.

Enjoy!

"Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater." 

-Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." 

-President Bush to Michael Brown of FEMA, on Friday morning

"He's done a hell of a job, because I'm not aware of any Arabian horses being 
killed in this storm." 

-Kate Hale, former Miami-Dade emergency management chief, on Michael Brown

"I think the other thing that really caught me by surprise was the fact that 
there were so many people who, and I'm not laying blame, but either chose not 
to evacuate or could not evacuate. And as we began to do the evacuations from 
the Superdome, all of a sudden, literally thousands of other people started 
showing up in other places, and we were not prepared for that. We were.we were 
surprised by that." 

-Michael Brown

"If one person criticizes [the local authorities' relief efforts] or says one 
more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me. 
One more word about it after this show airs, and I.I might likely have to punch 
him, literally." 

-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) on This Week with George Stephanopoulous

"I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at 
risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at 
tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out."

-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"Out of this tragedy, the focus of America is going to be on these victims, and 
inflamed rhetoric in the United States Senate is just not going to play well 
now.. If they start going on a vendetta against Roberts in the Senate, it's 
just going to hurt them. So Judge Roberts can be thankful that a tragedy has 
brought him some good." 

-Rev. Pat Robertson

"What I'm hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed 
by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were 
underprivileged anyway, so this.this [Chuckles slightly] is working very well 
for them." 

-former first lady Barbara Bush, on NPR

"If America wants to maintain what is left of its civilization it must free 
itself, as we say in Sudan, from the curse of the Jews.. The curse of Israel 
has afflicted America, in the south of the U.S.. The state [sic] called New 
Orleans is no longer 'new' at all." 

-Sudan TV, Sudan

"The problem, Hughes replied, was not a failed relief effort but a foreign 
press that did not appreciate the federal government's good work."

-Bush advisor Karen Hughes's response to a question about the international 
outcry over the government's handling of Katrina, in The Washington Post

"Almost all of them that we see are so poor, and they are so black."

-Wolf Blitzer, on CNN's Situation Room

"George Bush doesn't care about black people." 

-Kanye West

"Are you telling me we can coordinate a relief effort on the other side of the 
world and we can't do it here?. I'm not saying they didn't care. I'm saying 
they didn't care enough!" 

-I.V. Hilliard, pastor of the New Light Christian Center Church in Houston

"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and 
surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many 
who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame." 

-open letter to the president from the New OrleansTimes-Picayune

"We have been abandoned by our own country.. Nobody's coming to get us. 
Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. 
They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's 
sake, shut up and send us somebody." 

-Jefferson Parish president Aaron F. Broussard, through tears, to Tim Russert 
on Meet the Press

"Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself." 

-anonymous man in Gulfport, Mississippi, to the vice president, live on CNN

"This looks like the hull of a slave ship." 

-Rev. Jesse Jackson, after reviewing the packed sidewalk where families had 
gathered, their belongings in torn trash bags

"Pharaoh twiddled while Rome burned." 

-Rev. Al Sharpton to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, on Bush's response

"I would hate for the title to be tinged with sadness." 

-Katrina Leskanich, lead singer of Katrina and the Waves

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