Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,

Biography tends to tilt history, because every person you are writing about becomes larger than life.

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.

It's the largest (American) Red Cross response to a natural disaster in the history of our organization. We know it's going to cost in the millions, because we've already sheltered about 160,000 people and we have over 650 (Red Cross) shelters open in 17 states. But we don't have final figures because we're in the midst of trying to respond to this disaster and meet the immediate needs.

This disaster was one of the most preventable disasters that we've seen in American history.