1. “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
– President Bush, on “Good Morning America,” Sept. 1, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the damage expected from Hurricane Katrina
2. “So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) — this is working very well for them.”
– Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5
3. “Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?”
– House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston
4. “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”
– Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal
5. “I understand there are 10,000 people dead….But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years and years, these things happen.”
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