Natalie Rule Quotations

Unfortunately, the congressman does not understand the rule-making process. There is only the best of intentions here and a good faith effort. We encourage people to talk to us.

Every disaster is different. The 2004 hurricane season was extremely helpful in homing in on where we could tighten things up.

obviously we're not going to need that much capacity.

We're essentially relocating most of the city of New Orleans,

There has been that common thought that because (offers of aid) are not tapped immediately, they're not prudently used.

It should instill confidence that we are able to respond to something this catastrophic involving this many million people. This is a huge disaster and we have been able to get in there and we're getting people into safer areas. It's not easy and it won't be easy.

We were very well-prepared, but it's not going to be a breeze. This is a very large, large disaster, and it's going to require a lot of teamwork and patience.

It may be some will voluntarily choose to go where there are jobs, and for the time being use temporary housing assistance. Maybe they'll want to rebuild on their lots, and they'll want to put a trailer there. We're not going to make them do it, but we're going to enable them to do it.

It is not as simple as driving right up into the city of New Orleans and starting a rescue as we might be able to do in other disasters, such as an earthquake.

We already had all of our first-responder teams pre-deployed -- 32 teams in all -- who went in and staged in and around the hurricane zone and were ready to go by Sunday. This is deployment that requires that the governor make a request to the federal government.