The moral choices in America are not about hot-button social issues that get everybody mad. Moral choices are about making sure that folks don't drown at a nursing home before they can get evacuated.

Howard Dean, Democrat Party Chairman,
implying that President Bush was to blame
for deaths at St. Rita's Nursing Home

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I said, "We've got two buses and two drivers that'll take you anywhere you want to go. Do you want the buses?" She said, "No".

Byran Bertucci, St. Bernard Parish Coroner,
describing how the owners of the nursing home
refused multiple offers to evacuate its patients

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Thirty-four people drowned in a nursing home when it should have been evacuated . . . The pathetic thing in this case is that [the nursing home owners] were asked if they wanted to move [their patients] and they did not move. They were warned repeatedly.

Lousiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti,
announcing negligent homicide indictments
against the owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home