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One day we're going to be staring at nuclear weapons and it won't be Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke,

Now I never dream of leaving here. Hurricane Katrina wasn't a good thing, but maybe it was God's way of putting us in a better place.

Now, Katrina is a bellwether issue for a lot of people. And it means it's going to complicate his relationship with some of these ministers and their parishioners.

Oil company profiteering, not increased production costs, are the cause of the price spikes at the gasoline pump. Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering.

Demand destruction fears are trumping fears about damage to oil facilities. It's not just Katrina that is hurting demand. High prices have strained economies, especially in Asia, and demand is being curtailed as a result.

Companies are beginning to tell the markets they are going to take a hit from both Katrina and higher oil prices. Demand for stocks in the short term may slow down.

devastation along the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina is like nothing I have witnessed before.

Despite weeks and weeks of evidence -- even before Hurricane Katrina -- that these families were going to face record energy bills, your Administration has made no recommendations to deal with their financial straits,

Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about global trade and expect continued economic expansion in the U.S. and in the international markets.

Any person or family displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina ... could get a temporary housing voucher. This is without regard to their income situation, ... It recognizes the storm hit rich and poor alike, and this is an effort to give them some immediate, short-term help so they can move out of the situation in which they find themselves.

Any time people are displaced, you lose a lot of institutional history and institutional leadership and we hear that many of those people may not return because they fear they will not be able to experience the same level of life. Once you lose that level of institutional leadership and institutional knowledge, it's not going to be replaced immediately and especially when you look at the fact that Katrina altered the demographics of New Orleans overnight.

As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck.

As far as Katrina goes, I haven't seen the impact (on coffee prices yet),

As a result of our limited capacity to refine crude oil, we experience higher fuel prices when faced with refinery outages, such as during hurricanes Katrina and Rita, ... My legislation will encourage domestic refineries to expand their capacity so that we are less vulnerable to price fluctuations at the gasoline pump.

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

As a child growing up in Haiti I experienced the wrath and destructive power of hurricanes. My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

As a former prosecutor, I trust that the legal system will work and Tom DeLay, like every American, should have his day in court and should be afforded the presumption of innocence. However, in order to remove any questions that may arise about these contributions, I have made a donation in the same amount to the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund,

The bottom line is every aspect of the federal government has been working to help those devastated by Katrina and to get the Gulf Coast back on its feet. This is an unprecedented natural disaster, and Congress has responded in kind but full recovery does take time.

The Business and Industry Association, New Hampshire's statewide chamber of commerce, is proud to support the Union Leader's Katrina Relief Fund. Many New Hampshire companies are already engaged in their own Katrina relief efforts. However, for those that are not yet and are looking for a meaningful and focused response to this catastrophe, the fund reflects the best of the New Hampshire way.

The breakdown in communications in the Katrina event was not an interoperability event.

As our September FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting followed Hurricane Katrina by approximately three weeks and was held concurrently with the formation of Hurricane Rita, I felt that there was insufficient information as well as great uncertainty about how these forces would play out in the near term,

As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Constitution Day offers young people an opportunity to learn how a cornerstone of our democracy -- the concept of federalism -- shapes our lives,

That tells me Katrina is having a minimal impact on Labor Day travel.

You would think four years after 9/11 with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government.

You would think four years after 9-11, with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness, that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government.

This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New Orleans.

This is a scene we experienced with Katrina. Katrina was going to Florida for several days, and (then) gave us 48 hours to move,

This is drumming up fears that the damage to the economy from Hurricane Katrina will be exacerbated by Rita. Before concerns over Rita, the short-term fundamentals were positive for the dollar.

This is an evolving kind of situation, and what might have been appropriate a week ago might not be appropriate this week. Having Ellen DeGeneres as the host, who is from New Orleans, sets the tone right away that there will be a balance. One of the first things Ellen said to me after Katrina hit was that we still need to make people laugh without forgetting about what's going on and not in any way taking away from its meaning.

This is a substantial package of initiatives that will help our families, our business and our state recover from Katrina and Rita,

This is not like Katrina in New Orleans. We don't have extreme damage to infrastructure and businesses.

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

This is something that's been talked about for a long time. Once Katrina happened, there was added urgency to the matter because of the possibility of doing good things for economic development.

This is one of our larger houses. It will be built -- all the walls, interior and exterior -- today, and then we will take them apart and take them to our warehouse, and then we will reconstruct it on the site of a Katrina victim who is settled here in Atlanta.

This is our small, heartfelt contribution to join with Americans in offering condolences to those killed in the Katrina disaster,

The U.S. refinery system has been showing signs of severe tightness. The shut-in of refining capacity from Katrina is then not so much a straw, but rather a large log on top of an already fully laden camel.

This deal will allow us to capitalize on our newly established contacts in the region. He worked with Hurricane Katrina victims and survived Hurricane Rita, so he has plenty of local expertise as well as connections.

This country and its economy must have a vibrant commercial center at the mouth of the Mississippi River, its most important waterway, ... Katrina and Rita brought our economy to its knees.

This could be almost worse than Katrina because there are 4 million barrels of refining in Texas areas, much more than there was in New Orleans. (Texas) is the other major refining heart.

This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall,

This funding will purchase emergency response vehicles, radio gear, warning sirens, improve public safety facilities and upgrade communications systems, ... While these requests were submitted and approved before hurricane Katrina struck, these funds will contribute to rebuilding efforts and to the long-term commitment of the Bush Administration to prepare our nation to respond to emergencies of any kind.

This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. Everyone understands the need to help others.

This bill boggles the mind. Brazen doesn't begin to describe it. The Louisiana delegation is using Katrina as an excuse to resurrect a laundry list of pork projects.

This aid comes at exactly the right time to help victims of Hurricane Katrina as they rebuild their lives,

This agreement will allow much needed relief to finally reach the students, families and schools impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

This is a Fed that has demonstrated excellent crisis management skills. But by the time we come to November, the Fed should be able to act with a greater degree of confidence. A pause in November would mean a severe downgrade in the prospects for the economy while tightening in November would show that the effects of Hurricane Katrina were probably temporary.

A lot of guys say they can't find a hotel room. Katrina has done a job on us. But we expect a lot.

Although the full force of the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will not be fully known for some time, it is clear that the scope of the devastation is unprecedented for the local economies and is projected to slow U.S. economic activity in the third and fourth quarters.

Although the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in the United States and the spike in crude oil prices may temporarily hit the Japanese economy in the July-September period, it will probably grow back in the October-December quarter,

Although the devastating nature of Katrina cannot be overemphasized, out of this tragedy is an opportunity for minority businesses to become an integral part of the rebuilding process. Minority business participation in this rebuilding effort can be viewed as a general model for how all minority businesses can employ new and innovative growth strategies. Such an opportunity cannot and must not be left to chance or squandered. It's critical to the long-term economic health of the entire region.

Although Hurricane Katrina moved through a core area of offshore operations and damaged many production and exploration facilities, early reports indicate that the vast majority of facilities could be ready to come back on line in days and weeks, rather than months,

A lot of people were saying we wouldn't make it back. We wanted to prove everybody wrong. Then Hurricane Katrina comes.

A lot of people need a lot of money now that Katrina has devastated so many communities. Should it be the taxpayers' first priority to make a contractor at the shipyard whole? Money to Northrop means that it is not going to someone else who might need it.

Almost all of the Katrina bump has gone away,

Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with the lingering impact from Hurricane Katrina and ongoing political fights in Washington, seems to be holding back consumer sentiment.

They have all witnessed the devastation and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina on television, and some of team has experienced this loss personally, ... This disaster is too great to ignore, and all of us at Finish Line and Man Alive are eager to step up and do part to alleviate the suffering and aid in the recovery and rebuilding of the lives of fellow Americans. Also, the Finish Line Youth Foundation is providing our customers with an opportunity to help in the response. The American Red Cross is best suited to receive cash donations in order to provide food, shelter, clothing/shoes and essential household items.

You don't want to attend Katrina University. Normal is what we should strive for as much as possible.

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand,

This president has an especially difficult time admitting he's wrong, so when it happens, it probably has greater significance, but he's got such a long list of complex problems now because of Katrina and other things, this is probably the least of his worries, to be humble enough to admit error." ()

This month's modest gain indicates that the sharp rebound from the post-Hurricane Katrina meltdown has been completed. The gentle slowing trend that had been in place for much of 2005 may have been halted, but it is too soon to tell with any confidence.

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

The reporting for Katrina has been fabulous, among the best I have seen, right across the board, ... Television is at its best when it commits itself to public service and this was a classic, almost pluperfect, example of television news as a public service.

There's a growing awareness that Katrina has changed not only the agenda but all the circumstances we find ourselves in,

This is the silver lining in the dark cloud of Katrina. We would not have been able to start with an almost clean slate if Katrina had not happened. So it really does represent an incredible opportunity.

This match was just as close and exciting. We needed to win our last two matches like last time, and Katrina Elder-Bush and Dana Gordon won.

This looks like shades of Hurricane Katrina down there right now.

This is where I scribbled on the walls when I was little. This is where I took my first steps. All that?s gone. I grew up, partly by choice, partly because of the Katrina storm.

This is the Katrina of orca advocacy. We saw a perfect storm gathering, and they sat around and did nothing, and now we've got a dead whale. It's incredibly tragic and frustrating.

This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers. You could get a voucher in New Orleans and move to Alaska if you wanted.

This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers, ... You could get a voucher in New Orleans and move to Alaska if you wanted.

This Katrina funding is already at 60 billion. The expectation is that it will go higher,

This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita to try and push their special-interest agenda through Congress. We need to address our energy needs, but we don't need to jeopardize our environment and economy to do it, and we shouldn't use a national tragedy as cover for bad policy.

This is a very positive, strong report and encouraging because it included Katrina and a spike in oil prices and we still just seem to have a lot of momentum going into the fourth quarter.

They have taken advantage of the Hurricane Katrina situation to jack up those profits,

There's concern about this Tropical Storm Rita. People are watching that a little bit more closely, given Katrina and its impact on the market. There's some unwillingness right now to take aggressive positions,

There's clearly a lack of interest in investing while the economy works through these Katrina issues, ... We need to get a clearer sense of when gasoline prices are going to come back to normal. When I talk to retail investors, a lot are frozen by the level of uncertainty those issues create.

There's a lot of uncertainty about whether Rita will cause as much damage to the oil infrastructure as Katrina did.

There's always that possibility, but I thought there was that possibility before Katrina. Competition is not a new wrinkle. Katrina simply escalated it.

At first it was just going to be a great Labor Day festival to come home, have some fun, enjoy ourselves and play some music. But then with Hurricane Katrina and all the evacuees staying at Ford Park, it's taken on a new life.

As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million,

As you know, the president has established the 'White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response.' He will meet with us tomorrow to launch this effort. The Department of Homeland Security, along with other Departments, will be part of the task force and will assist the administration with its response to Hurricane Katrina,

As you know, President Bush was highly engaged in the preparation and response effort, beginning when Katrina was a tropical storm off the coast of Florida.

As much as Katrina has taken (the oil) supply off the table, there's also demand it has taken off the table.

ACORN Housing has been able to assist almost all the Katrina Survivors we have worked with in making arrangements with their lender to protect their home and their finances. But everyone needs to get in contact with their lender or ACORN Housing as soon as possible -- and we are going to go out in the community to make sure as many people as possible know they need to act now.

It's just the overall significance of the impact of such a large-scale emergency ... We can't be stuck in the old Katrina model where we're not prepared.

It's essential for us to respond to the devastation brought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But as we do, we should consider and respond to the fiscal and economic risks we have been running,

It seems like the storms attributed to Katrina never stop. We're still finding bodies. We can't seem to put the worst of this behind us to even get to rebuilding. It's just a very, very, very bad, desperate situation down here.

It's a strong signal to the market that the U.S. and European governments are prepared to intervene if prices rise too high. Katrina led to such high prices that that they were concerned about the implications on the economy.

It will go to agencies like ours. We help children and families in need, now for Katrina victims too.

It's a challenge to avoid becoming Katrina University, where everything is about the storm. Kids crave normalcy.

It is quite possible people will want to travel more this fall with the unseasonably warm weather we've been having, ... When oil prices fall, we pay less. Plus, most of the problems at refineries that were damaged during Hurricane Katrina appear to have been resolved.

It is unfortunate that it takes a hurricane like Katrina or Rita to show us just how acute the problem is. Now is the time to start to correct this problem and build more refineries in the United States.

It really does reflect the enormous amount of coverage of the Katrina disaster.

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

For days I've been obsessed with this Katrina thing.

For creditors, bills are just a number, ... It's not going to take them long to forget about the Hurricane Katrina deal.

For example, a taxpayer in the 25 percent marginal tax bracket would save $250 in taxes by making a $1,000 contribution. However, as Dan explained, although the federal government will lose $250 in tax revenue there is $1,000 going to benefit hurricane victims that the government doesn't have to spend. Put differently - the taxpayer, the federal government and the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita all win.

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.