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Plenty of blame to go around. More than enough for everybody.
Here's the difference, though. I don't vote in New Orleans. And I don’t sit up at night and worry if the local politicians in New Orleans or San Francisco or Detroit can respond competently to a national disaster, whether terrorist or natural.
I do vote in national elections, and I want our NATIONAL response to be much better next time. So sorry if I don't focus on the Governor of LA, her constituents can worry about her. Four years after 9/11, I thought our national response would be much better, and I never imagined that we were dependent upon local politicians to handle national emergencies. I don’t think we are. I think that's what Homeland Security and FEMA are for.
We get it right next time not by focusing on New Orleans, but by focusing on our federal response capabilities.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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