46 Quotes by Russel Honore

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

Worse things have happened to America. We're going to overcome this, too. It's not our fault. The storm came and flooded the city.

We've got a plan, but don't confuse the plan with execution. We're doing something that is very different. Nobody goes around with 50 tones of water.

We didn't want another Kent State. They weren't trained for crowd control.

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.