The one thing I hear the most are the prayers that are being sent for those who are in harm’s way.

We will find every one of them.

There’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing, a lot of second-guessing and Monday morning quarterbacking.

We will not stop today or tomorrow, we will stop when it’s finish.

This is a time when we, as a state, need God more than ever.

When Texas faces a challenge, we come together, we unite.

We will be relentless and going after and ensuring that we locate every single person who’s been a victim of this flooding event.

I’ve had personal experience with using cruise control and having the car brake for me, which can be very disturbing.

My kids' school — there was one of their schoolmates, was missing, and one of the kids she was on a mattress for two, three hours in the middle of the night.

There’s a time to have political fights, there’s a time to disagree. This is not that time.

My instruction to every state agency involved in this is to assume everybody who is missing is alive.

We will stop at nothing to ensure that every asset and person and plan, whatever is needed, is going to be involved in the process of rescuing every last person.

Twenty-four-seven, looking at every tree, turning over every rock, whatever it takes – if your child is one of those truly missing and not just out of touch – to find your daughter.

We will be relentless in the ongoing search for missing people. We’re not going to stop today or tomorrow.

We will continue to add counties as needed, as conditions either worsen or improve in counties across the state of Texas.

I think that it’s in their interest to make sure safety is top of mind and that nothing goes wrong.

We can’t let Putin prevail now.

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