Big events Quote by Gilbert Gottfried

As George Bush's infamous for once saying by mistake, he said, "Mother Nature is a terrorist." So it was with Katrina - the devastation…

— Stanley Greene

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city…

— Ray Nagin

“."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

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

— Hamza Yusuf

The Katrina matter was terrible.

— Pat Robertson

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a…

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone in New…

— Rebecca Solnit

The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer…

— Richard E. Besser

It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity…

— Porochista Khakpour

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to…

— John Hickenlooper

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars…

— Ross Gelbspan