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Devorah Goldburg Quotes

«Right now, shelter, meals, water and mental health counseling are things people are in need of. But we're not always hearing exactly what the needs are, because we've had spotty communication with our people on the ground.»
«It's frustrating to our thousands of volunteers out there every day, away their families, helping people. We never said we were perfect -- we're trying to do our best under extraordinary circumstances.»
«People are getting more creative and sophisticated in their fraud schemes.»
«Typically, we open a shelter, the hurricane happens, people hang out there maybe a week or so and then everyone goes home. This time, there's nothing to go home to.»
«That's an interesting idea. I think everyone's thinking out of the box, aren't they?»
«A disaster like this Katrina brings out the best in people, but unfortunately, it also brings out the worst in people, too.»
«Red Cross determined that it should accelerate the receipt of funds by victims, even if this meant creating a funding gap while pledges turn into actual cash receipts.»
«Every day we were in touch with state officials offering to go in. They said they don't want us in there.»
«This is one of the biggest schemes that we've seen.»
«There were contract employees...that were in the call center giving out code numbers [to their friends and family] to go to their local Western Union to pick up money. [These people] were really not Katrina victims.»