“What we learned post-9/11 is that people get tapped out on these huge emotional responses, ... That is a real issue because all of us have limited budgets.”
“I'm not telling people not to give to Katrina, because God knows they need it, ... But we're going to be asking them to help our needs locally. We are always going to have a segment of our population that's going to need our help.”
“I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't two times that. It just shows the compassion of the people here to folks they don't even know in another part of the country.”
