In the initial response to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, particularly in Louisiana, governments at all levels failed in this obligation,

in this time of national tragedy.

We must do what is necessary do help the victims of this terrible tragedy, but we should make sure it is done in a way that does not add onto the already mounting debt, ... The best way to do this is a combination of cutting spending for less critical programs and canceling the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, who are in the best financial position to help their fellow Americans in this time of crisis.

We must do what is necessary do help the victims of this terrible tragedy, but we should make sure it is done in a way that does not add onto the already mounting debt, ... The best way to do this























































































































is a combination of cutting spending for less critical programs and canceling the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, who are in the best financial position to help their fellow Americans in this time of crisis.

It was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.