Some of them are on the brink of unable to cope any longer.
DON SMITHBURG We are highly skeptical that you can bring in 2006 systems and attach them to 1938 systems and make ...
DON SMITHBURG It's such a great area, in terms of accessibility, people know where it is, ambulances can get there...
DON SMITHBURG What we're trying to avoid is having to move more than once.
DON SMITHBURG I am not cautiously optimistic at all.
DON SMITHBURG We don't have that luxury, if you will.
DON SMITHBURG We would have to consider that.
DON SMITHBURG Our heroic staff cannot keep going much longer. We can't get our people out fast enough.
DON SMITHBURG The last information I have is that all of the buildings are empty.
DON SMITHBURG Our morgue at Big Charity is full and it is under water.
DON SMITHBURG We are seeing a domino effect as our Katrina- and Rita-related financial and personnel issues impact...
DONALD SMITHBURG How many will stay, how many will repatriate to New Orleans has yet to be determined, ... But we kno...
DONALD SMITHBURG The situation is grave,
DONALD SMITHBURG We've almost exhausted local resources, ... We are looking to interstate cooperation on into the nex...
DONALD SMITHBURG We've requested security for all of our facilities, but unfortunately we've almost tapped out our Na...
DONALD SMITHBURG should tour the facility so he can see for himself the extent of the damage.
DONALD SMITHBURG The (old) facilities are unusable for health care purposes, ... That doesn't mean the public hospita...
DONALD SMITHBURG [Louisiana's public hospital system is on the verge of financial collapse two months after Hurricane...
DONALD SMITHBURG We are a bus crash away from complete and total disaster.
DONALD SMITHBURG We're out of money, roughly after Thanksgiving.
DONALD SMITHBURG The buildings have unsafe air to breathe, pervasive mold growing, and mechanical systems that were c...
DONALD R. SMITHBURG The opportunity to maximize limited dollars through collaboration with the VA is immense, bold, and ...
DONALD R. SMITHBURG It's not really up to the hospitals to decide what the health care delivery system should be.
DONALD R. SMITHBURG We are going to build newer, more modern facilities that will withstand the test of time. They will ...
DONALD R. SMITHBURG Even before the storms, these old facilities were on the ropes.
DONALD R. SMITHBURG The big Charity and University hospital buildings were issued their 'death warrant' by Katrina and t...
DONALD R. SMITHBURG A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th...
DON MARQUIS One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather ...
DON MARQUIS If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. Tha...
DON KARDONG In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ...
DON TAPSCOTT One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
DON SHULA The person who has no enemies has no followers.
DON PIATT Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
DON MARQUIS The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ...
DON MASHAK Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ...
DON MASHAK OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ...
DON MASHAK Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ...
DON EVERLY Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'...
DON MARQUIS It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou...
DON MARQUIS Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
DON PIATT I am just another insect on the windshield of life.
DON MASHAK Speak low if you speak love.
DON PEDRO Get the job done.
DON SHULA Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
DON SHULA I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they...
DON DELILLO A naked woman was amazing.

He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off c...
DON DELILLO Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...
DON DELILLO The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within mem...
DON CAMPBELL In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
DON PIATT Where one door closes, another opens.
DON QUIJOTE Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
DON HEROLD Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
DON HEROLD A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m...
DON MARQUIS There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
DON HEROLD There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
DON HEROLD America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame...
DON DELILLO I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c...
DON DELILLO If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the ma...
DON DELILLO Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ...
DON MARQUIS Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
DON MARQUIS It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
DON WALK There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
DON HEROLD Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is s...
DON WALK Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
DON MARQUIS Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
DON SHULA An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
DON MARQUIS Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
DON MARQUIS Hardship makes the world obscure.
DON DELILLO I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
DON JOHNSON A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
DON HEROLD Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
DON MARQUIS Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
DON MARQUIS I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
DON SHULA I would rather start a family than finish one.
DON MARQUIS now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
DON MARQUIS The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!
DON MASHAK Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but b...
DON DELILLO For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
DON HUTSON Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
DON HEROLD There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...
DON DELILLO Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a...
DON BARTHELME In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw...
DON DELILLO Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
DON GALER Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
DON MARQUIS a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely somethin...
DON MARQUIS prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
DON MARQUIS Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
DON HAYS Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t...
DON DELILLO Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
DON MARQUIS People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance....
DON DELILLO Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
DON MARQUIS The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai...
DON DELILLO Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
DON MARQUIS A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that ga...
DON MARQUIS Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accou...
DON MASHAK If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless...
DON DELILLO Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF The nobler the blood the less the pride
DON MARQUIS The future belongs to crowds
DON DELILLO Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity
DON CUPITT The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
DON SHULA Babies are such a nice way to start people.
DON HEROLD It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
DON MARQUIS This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
DON MCLEAN An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all a...
DON DELILLO If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
DON KNUTH Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
DON HEROLD Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
DON HEROLD The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantit...
DON MARQUIS A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.
DON PIATT Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
DON WILDER Babies are such a nice way to start people
DON HEROLD Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.
DON RITTNER Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
DON WOOD No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
DON RITTNER The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
DON MARQUIS May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
DON DELILLO I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not b...
DON ADAMS Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee mu...
DON KING Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.
DON NICKLES ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
DON NICKLES If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortsto...
DON YAEGER The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of i...
DON DELILLO The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
DON RICKLES Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're...
DON WILLETT