Newsey Quote Down Memory Lane: Fred Barnes
“But last year, when there were two hurricanes, and I got a new roof, I paid my part. My private insurance company paid the other part. The federal government and taxpayers paid no part.”
- TV pundit and Floridian Fred Barnes, on August 29, 2005, suggesting that people in New Orleans shouldn’t expect to be bailed out with taxpayer money because they should have known better than to live below sea level.