11 Quotes by David Catania

There is no monkey business going on. This is not an exemption that swallows the rule.

We're a city with a lot of resources and a big heart.

I am confident in Dr. Pane's leadership and ability to address these issues and identify a strong administrator.

When the people arrived, we addressed their needs as we found them. Once you take care of the immediate crisis, then you provide ongoing services.

If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

We don't see any appreciable improvement from what we've already had before us. The good news is that people want to get there.

This is an exercise that requires flexibility and patience. In the next couple of days, we'll have evacuees in Washington. We'll still have them.

This is the system you are advocating, so implement it already. Stop talking about it.

It might very well be us someday because of a natural or other emergency. It's good karma for us to be in the business of reaching out.