"It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive." - Randall Robinson

"As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2." - Robert Kennedy

"Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged." - Robert Kennedy

*"Many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black . . . " -- CNN's Wolf Blitzer's .

"George Bush doesn't care about black people." -- Kanye West

"We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age, and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not," - Howard Dean

"They've given them permission to shoot us." - Kanye West

"This looks like the hull of a slave ship," - Jesse Jackson

"I did everything possible to save lives," - Mayor Nagin

"One of the briefings we had they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out of here," Nagin said.

"I'm like - you've got to be kidding me. This is a natural disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans." - Mayor Nagin

"Appearing on NBC's "Dateline," Nagin was asked by host Stone Phillips: "What was mobilized? I mean were national guard troops in position. Were helicopters standing by? Were buses ready to take people away?"

"No. None of that," the Big Easy mayor replied.

"Why is that?" an incredulous Phillips asked.

Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is (a) question for somebody else."