“Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast — that was an act of God … Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.”

—  James Carville

in a speech to LSU students at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum on January 27, 2006.

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