«Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - black and white, rich and poor, young and old - deserve far better from their national government,»

«The record for rebuilding will be staggering, but it will pale in comparison to the staggering incompetence of this national government.»

«The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.»

«Thousands are dead and only God knows how many, ... I've seen more in the last two weeks than I've seen in my entire lifetime, and I hope to never witness it again.»

«we would have at least had a fighting chance.»

«I'm asking Congress, please don't send any more money to FEMA,»

«This is all just so surreal,»

«This is about telling the story. The full story.»

«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 might likely have to punch him. Literally.»

«I feel a little bit like a reporter, ... I don't know if I'm filing my stories correctly or meeting the deadlines, but I feel like a reporter, trying to give people a sense of the magnitude of what we're facing.»