17 Quotes by Bob Johannessen

The resources of the state to date have been on getting the living out of New Orleans. It is changing to recovering those who perished.

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Apparently it's an issue between the City of New Orleans and FEMA. The State of Louisiana knew nothing about this, it came as a complete shock to us.

There might still be bodies found -- for instance, if a house was locked and nobody able to go into it.

It wasn't us. I'll have to check with headquarters.

It's a place for the process to start, to work through the grief of beginning the long road of possible identification.

The elderly were much more likely to be in hospitals and nursing homes as well as possibly homebound and not able to access transportation in order to evacuate from the storm.

The law is silent on those two issues.