Vees Quotes

You have to give them credit for not driving Humvees. - Mark Headley

Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain. - The Clarion-Ledger

When the storm hit and the levees broke, our calls went unanswered. - Mary Landrieu

What we went through is minute if you compare it to what people in New Orleans went through, especially close to where the levees broke. They lost everything. I'm proud of everybody. I'm glad I was part of this team. This will be a memory for a lifetime. - Aaron Stecker

What we are seeing is an unraveling of the way we finance healthcare in the United States. It is coming apart at the edges, and those edges are small business and low-wage workers. The levees are breaking. - William Custer

What happens is there's an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. It's the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans. - Jim Baker

What broke on Lake Pontchartrain were huge levees. And from what I've seen they are well maintained. - Larry Reed

We've been fighting for a long time to strengthen the levees and get full funding for these. Hopefully, it will no longer fall on deaf ears, ... Would the money have saved us? Unfortunately, we'll never know. - Brian Richardson

We're not as concerned about the rain as we are about that tidal surge. We don't know how fragile those levees really are. - Susan Jackson