Administration Quote by Timothy Noah

I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that the president…

— Andrew Sullivan

The Katrina matter was terrible.

— Pat Robertson

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw…

— Susan Faludi

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad…

— Newt Gingrich

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a…

— Cornel West

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the…

— John Olver

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war…

— John Podhoretz

The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world…

— Jurgen Trittin

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened…

— James Carville

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

— Desmond Tutu

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

— Dick Cheney