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.

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If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place.

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This year we were $50 million short of what we thought we needed for hurricane protection.

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It's an indictment of our whole society, that at the bottom of the rungs all the time are poor African-Americans.

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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?

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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.

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I have said $225 billion, ... These are not unrealistic numbers.

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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.

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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.

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