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William Jefferson Quotes
«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.»
Author: William Jefferson
«This year we were $50 million short of what we thought we needed for hurricane protection,»
Author: William Jefferson
«If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place.»
Author: William Jefferson
«The response time and all of the rest of it -- I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that people are black. It has to do with the fact that people are poor and desperate and left in a situation where they didn't have a way out,»
Author: William Jefferson
«It's an indictment of our whole society, that at the bottom of the rungs all the time are poor African-Americans.»
Author: William Jefferson
«I think it is unrealistic to appropriate $10 billion, $30 billion at a time, ... It's important to talk about the big number up front.»
Author: William Jefferson
«I have said $225 billion, ... These are not unrealistic numbers.»
Author: William Jefferson
«They treat me a little bit like someone at a funeral who just lost a loved one, ... They reach out and say how sorry they are. And that they want to help.»
Author: William Jefferson
«I was intending to go to my neighborhood for sure if I could get there. I didn't know what the condition was, ... I was curious to know and everybody in my family was curious to know: What was the condition of our house? Was it underwater? Was it looted?»
Author: William Jefferson
«I didn't want to have anybody with me, ... I was perfectly happy just by myself but they thought it was too risky. I regret that there was any need to have anybody there.»
Author: William Jefferson