My hope is, and it's a sad way to learn this, that people now understand the importance of a federal emergency response. It's not something you can do on the cheap.

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The level of competition surprises me here because of the amount of resources that have been depleted from the company.

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I think it's a black eye for the Bush administration. This opens a Pandora's box.

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Legislation is very badly needed. This has been left to self-regulation, which is self-evidently constricted by the fact that the plants don't want to spend any more money than they have to.

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Witt shaped [FEMA] into an organization that was not only to respond to disaster but attempt to mitigate disaster by taking actions before they occurred.

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I think this is part of a strategy to make this case as difficult as possible to get to the Supreme Court.

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I don't see how they're going to survive this.

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Everything he did and everything he has said strongly suggests that that plan was never read.

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To say I've suddenly discovered the military needs to be involved is like saying wheels should be round instead of square.

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