Tom Carper actually said...

"if you do prepare, that ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure."

"It is easy in a political environment to move toward the thing that gets the most attention, but it is not always necessarily the thing that has the best economic imperative."

"the increase in frequency and intensity of those extreme weather events are costing our country a boatload of money--not just the cost that is measured in lives that are impacted but in economic and f..."

"I believe we cannot afford to ignore the impacts these weather events are having on Federal spending."