One of the pledges that I have made when I was a senator, and one of the pledges that I intend to keep as president, is to make sure that we rebuild New Orleans and its vitality and its place in American culture.

A government can't do everything, but one thing it can do is help communities recover after a flood.

Well, first of all, our thoughts and prayers are with them. And obviously, this is an extraordinary thing to have to go through, particularly for families who had to go through this three years ago, had to rebuild and now to have to leave…

My understanding is that Governor Palin's town of Wasilla has I think 50 employees. We've got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month.

I think it's important to understand that it's going to take probably a couple of days before people are able to make a clear assessment that the levees held and that things are safe.

I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits. And people's children are especially off limits.

Every conversation I have had indicates that the state, the federal, and local municipalities have coordinated themselves well. We have seen the evacuation of two million people, with relatively few glitches.

I will work actively to ensure that the U.S. ratifies the Law of the Sea Convention.

I'm going to be staying on FEMA and other relevant federal agencies to make sure that people are getting the relief that they need.

I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.

Well, the key is that they started planning early, which is something that, obviously, they did not do last time.