"It's not worth staying here."
"It's not worth staying here."
Celia Martinez
On leaving her home in Galveston, Texas, to avoid Hurricane Rita.
"That's tough."
Dr. Louis Cataldie
Medical incident commander for Louisiana, acknowledging that searchers are finding more children killed by Hurricane Katrina.
"It's like Osama bin Laden's running the weather."
Stephen Cimbala
A political scientist at Pennsylvania State University, on how Rita and Katrina have turned public attention away from Iraq.
"I can only take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda."
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Who announced he will vote to confirm John Roberts as chief justice of the United States.