Russel Honore Quotes (15 Quotes)

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

We've got a plan, but don't confuse the plan with execution. We're doing something that is very different. Nobody goes around with 50 tones of water.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Worse things have happened to America. We're going to overcome this, too. It's not our fault. The storm came and flooded the city.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

We didn't want another Kent State. They weren't trained for crowd control.

To these people, the crisis is still going on. They haven't gotten to the recovery part yet.

There will be zero access to that operation. You wouldn't want to have pictures of people who are deceased shown on any media. Everybody knows it's a horrific event.