It is unconscionable.

What is your objection to having all parties agree upon a procedure... considering that you are keeping $3 billion from the citizens of Louisiana?

I can tell you this much, we are going to build a Department of Homeland Security over in Ward 8. It is going to be a LEED building.

We cannot sit by and really hope that outsized disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 will never occur again.

We need to get all of that extra help that you gave to Louisiana and Mississippi, and they will do it.

Report is one thing, permission is another. If we get into permission matters, the supersized disaster we are talking about will be supersized repeated.

We could not even get the prior administration to acknowledge the structural problem.

You don't have a right under the Stafford Act to be where you were before, to be close to work.

I was concerned that the inauguration was so big this time that there was, at first, the notion that the Reserves should be under some dual command.

Now, we have figured out, because industry helps us to figure out, we have real-time figures now about the payback.

We are frustrated with the Agency not seeing the structural defeat.

There is no way to argue that we can ease up on Louisiana and Mississippi a little bit; because we have been at this for a long time.