American history Quote by Douglas Brinkley Download Open image “Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.” — Douglas Brinkley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare American history Disaster History Hurricane katrina Hurricanes Katrina Natural Natural disaster Worst
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to… — Charlie Crist Copy Share Image
The worst natural disasters find yourself closer to humanity, otherwise you would not understand humanity, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The worst natural disasters BRING yourself closer to humanity, otherwise you wouldnot understand humanity, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“."Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, .. God forbid this happens in San Francisco. — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“The popular director of OWI was Elmer Davis, an ex-CBS radioman with an admiration for the wire services and Murrow. Working closely with the… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.” — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power -… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image