"Well, I think the most important thing is, don't sit around in your office and try to make decisions out of the office. You have got to be with the people. It's the most important thing."
"I think it is very clear that we had a big disadvantage because of the winds."
"That is flatly absolutely not true."
"There is no doubt his Guard is strained a bit because of all the deployment in recent years, but when it comes to the number of men available, the number of pieces of equipment available, he says ther..."
"I think the most important thing is don't sit around in your office and try to make decisions out of the office. You've got to be with the people. That's the most important thing."
"I think if the federal government does not really play ball with us or they're not good partners, I complain immediately. But in this particular case, I can tell you, I was really surprised, pleasantl..."
"There's no way that you can just let people sit and wait for a disaster like this to happen. I think that this is a real situation here."
"So it has absolutely nothing to do with it. We have plenty of National Guards for this kind of natural disasters and there will be plenty of them available."
"We have noticed because of climate that the fires start much earlier and we had many more fires this year than in the past. So I think there's definitely something going on with the global warming."
"I have heard that the weather is going to change today. But I wouldn't, you know, trust my life with that information."
"I was really surprised, pleasantly surprised that he got a phone call from President Bush so early in this crisis."
"We have the best firefighters. They're working 24 hours a day. They put themselves in harm's way."