I imagine there are some people who want to see more religious freedom in China. We're trying to work with the freedom that we have.
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The most horrific scenes I've ever seen. I couldn't imagine that we would have seen it exactly as we did. It looked as if a bomb had exploded along the coast of Mississippi. And then when we got to my home state of Louisiana and my home district, covered with water, just 80 percent of the city, just a massive devastation. ... I think George W. Bush had to agree with us that it was a totally unacceptable response. I know it was an overwhelming storm, but that, of course, meant that the tragedy was enormous and the need to respond was greater than ever before. Yet we waited days to get a response. It was very unorganized, and people suffered as a consequence of it. ... FEMA couldn't decide how to coordinate with the states and couldn't decide how to accept help. And it was just a massive set of inefficiencies.William Jefferson
I tell folks all the time, I'm glad I was able to start out my life like that, but I'm also glad it's over,
William Jefferson
If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place.
William Jefferson
It will allow Entergy to pick up money in the tax code that they couldn't get through direct appropriation.
William Jefferson
As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck.
William Jefferson
The most important thing he said tonight was addressing poverty in the region, ... We have to do our best to attack it.
William Jefferson
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