Top 20 Bush Katrina Quotes

#1. The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.

Jurgen Trittin

#2. I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

Ken Auletta

#3. One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Teju Cole

#4. No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#5. A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Omar N. Bradley

#7. Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Jonathan Raymond

#8. Fear always springs
from ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

Ariel Durant

#10. Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

Scott McClellan

#11. Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. Hurricane Katrina brought a city, a state and the Bush 43rd Administration to its knees because all levels of government were unprepared for the sheer magnitude of the event.

J.C. Phillips

#13. Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

Ani DiFranco

#14. George Bush doesn't care about black people.

Kanye West

#15. I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Whitney Cummings

#16. I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

William J. Clinton

#17. Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

Ron Fournier

#18. I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that's harder than you'd think.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. In any film there's always a historical implication.

Oliver Stone

#20. Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Clint Eastwood

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