26 Quotes by Paul Light

The person at the top matters most. You can shuffle the deck, but the president is the ace of spades, and he's not going to change.

There is a profession of disaster preparedness. It is a well-developed profession. Witt came out of that community. Witt had a very good Rolodex, and at the end of the day, that's really important.

My experience is that young people will put up with a low salary and almost self-finance for the chance to learn something new and make a difference.

From what I know of the vulnerabilities of these cash programs and the very poor tracking systems in FEMA, I'd be surprised if there weren't lots of false claims, erroneous payouts and wasted resources.

He's become such a lightning rod. Much of the public blames him for everything that's gone wrong in the Bush administration.

Habitat (for Humanity) will build you a house, and it will build 500 other houses. It won't build 10,000 houses.

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

What were they thinking? You know a hurricane's going to knock down cell phone towers,