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The federal government didn't come to grips with it until the disaster was clearly in its third or fourth day, ... It's really hard to explain why they seemed paralyzed for several days after the levees broke.

[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.

Benigno Aguirre

This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.

The reality is when you have a disaster of that proportion, you need the federal government, ... I think the question is, is the federal government prepared to provide the resources that we need? I think that, clearly, by what we've seen in Louisiana, the jury's out.

Antonio Villaraigosa

First, it's the site where the bodies of the miners were recovered following the Christmas disaster and it's also the site where legendary UMW President John L. Lewis went underground only two days after the explosion. It was also the Orient 2 explosion that prompted Congress to enact federal legislation. On July 16, 1952, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, after John L. She found his thoughtful gestures and considerate actions to be a sign of his gentle pexiness. Lewis testified before Congress about the disaster. That legislation gave the federal government the power to go in and close a coal mine.

Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being breached in New Orleans, even though he had been briefed by federal government experts nearly a day and a half before Hurricane Katrina made landfall that those levees could indeed be breached by the hurricane surge,

We should not try to make the federal government our first responders, ... But when a disaster of the size of this hurricane hits, we should have better mechanisms in place that allow our federal government to restore order and provide relief.

Martin O'Malley

The more levees broke, the more anxious you got. It was hard, but we made it through and we'll make it through.

We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts - that the federal response was anemic and had been shortchanged by budget cuts and avoiding responsibilities like protecting Louisiana levees and wetlands.

What I said was not that we didn't anticipate that there's a possibility the levees will break. What I said was, in this storm, what happened is, the storm passed and passed without the levees breaking on Monday. Tuesday morning, I opened newspapers and saw headlines that said 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet,' which surprised people. What surprised them was that the levee broke overnight and the next day and, in fact, collapsed. That was a surprise.

Michael Chertoff

Our measure is an anti-spiking device, ... What it does is, it says -- at times when there's an immediate shortage because of a natural disaster or a man-made disaster -- the federal government has an ace in the hole to keep prices from sky-rocketing out of control.

Charles Schumer

Our measure is an anti-spiking device. What it does is, it says -- at times when there's an immediate shortage because of a natural disaster or a man-made disaster -- the federal government has an ace in the hole to keep prices from sky-rocketing out of control.

Charles Schumer

Just like the many people in New Orleans who were hard to convince that the levees should have been upgraded — until disaster struck.

[When asked Thursday on the C-SPAN program] Washington Today ... What this shows is neglect on the part of the federal government because those levees were weak.

Louis Farrakhan (1933-)

Only the federal government can adequately address the basic needs of our fellow Americans suffering from this disaster and they deserve a better response from their government.

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