We continue to make better progress than we anticipated.

Everyone at the agency feels shocked and numb. That was not supposed to happen.

The waters in the industrial canal had risen very rapidly ... far above what was ever predicted or anticipated in the area.

The bulldozers won't go away on the first of June.

You're going to have what you had (before Katrina), and that's all you're going to get. The threat is the same.

This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions.