I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That's just not happening.

This (plan) buys us some time so we can figure things out.

This is the next step in that road to recovery and it will buy us some time.

It's the nature of the disaster. This is far beyond anything we've ever done in this country. It's beyond our immediate capabilities for sure.

“Wisdom is the subtlety of knowing which rules to bend and which rules to break”

You can't do much better. He lets you run your own shop.