What you’re doing is re-creating public housing, which governments, whether Democrat or Republican, have been trying to extract themselves from since the 1970s. They create environments hostile to normal living.

I think as a consequence you are ending up with a program that is excessively costly and socially destructive.

One way to show such sacrifice and resolve would be to agree to shift [to Katrina relief] at least half of the $25 billion that the recently enacted highway bill dedicates to frivolous pork-barrel spending.

I don’t think this is the most effective way of dealing with the situation, … The much more cost-effective way for the American taxpayer and socially effective way for the evacuees is to use the...

I am baffled. This is not incompetence. This is willful. That is the only way I can explain it.