Nicole Andrews Quotations

We are just trying to help people move on,

We've been working around the clock sending FEMA personnel to the Scotia Prince and other cruise ships to make sure that every single family staying on board has received long-term housing assistance, or if they haven't, to get them signed up right away.

As far as people can get away from the storm there will be places for them to go.

It would be a false sense of security to rely on FEMA to rebuild a life the way it was before a disaster.

It's not just cleaning up, but helping all those folks who were displaced. We've only just begun.

If sites for those mobile homes are not approved in Louisiana, it is possible they will never be used for hurricane relief.

It's amazing that every state in the union embraced Katrina evacuees except the folks in Louisiana.

We're required by law to send the letters. We're required by law to receive 25 percent of this cost share, and obviously, we're going to be working closely with the state of Louisiana because of the circumstances.

The challenge of moving people from short-term to long-term housing is one that we take very seriously. As the Dec. 15 deadline approached, we are aware of folks whose eligible applications are still in process and obviously we are not going to be putting anyone out on the street.

The research that we've conducted shows that we don't expect large throngs of folks to suddenly find themselves in a desperate situation.