Quotes that caught my eye this morning

Condi Rice reportedly talking to Israeli PM Olmert about the civilians still in southern Lebanon.

“Look, we’ve had this experience, with Katrina, and we thought we were doing it right,” she reportedly said. “But we learned that many people who want to leave can’t leave.”

Though Ms. Rice was not directly involved in the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, she told colleagues last summer that she had been appalled at the slow reaction and had urged Mr. Bush to do more to alleviate the hardship of residents, many of them black, who were trapped in the flooded city.

Remember, Condi was so "appalled" that she was buying "several thousand dollars" worth of shoes on Wednesday, two and a half days after the levee breach was on my TV. Sorry, the revisionism just got to me.

Second quote, from a Mass. woman waiting in a British airport.

"It's been terrible," she said. "We are waiting in Disney-like lines. "

Last, Mr. Chertoff, what the hell does "suggestive of Al Qaeda" mean? Here's the full quote:

"It was sophisticated, it had a lot of members and it was international in scope," said Chertoff. "It was in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot." He added, however, that "because the investigation is still underway we cannot yet form a definitive conclusion."