At a time when our politics seems more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together, that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest Nation in the world.

FEMA deserves credit for being prepared to respond quickly to this massive natural disaster.

I think Congressman Graves should be applauded for helping.

I just think that--there seems to be breakdowns in procedures.

Are you going to have meetings with these mayors and the parish? It seems like there's a breakdown between the municipalities and the parish and the State and FEMA.

So homes will be not only--have they been not only underwater, now they're going to be underwater and people walking away and their jobs.

The Stafford Act is entirely insufficient to respond to this disaster.

There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.

This is an entirely insufficient situation.

I did call Congressman Graves. We did get water.

If our first thought is always that America's citizens are looking for a way to beat the system, then we're never going to make any progress.

We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars through the Department of Transportation.

But let's be clear. I don't want you to pull the Governor and his staff into this thing. This is not their decision. This decision is FEMA's decision.

I think it's ridiculous. This is why people get so frustrated and why there are T-shirts that use an alternative acronym for 'FEMA' on Bourbon Street.

I just want us to be fair and try to work in a way to just get people what we can give them right now.

I don't think that can work that way.

We're going to donate in charity and volunteer our way out of the fourth most costly disaster in the United States--flood disaster in United States history.

We have to get a supplemental done. Without a supplemental, the government will never have the ability to set up a program to match the unmet need that people are going to have.