Garret Graves actually said...

"We got together and rescued our own people. We did it."

"What we're saying is we want to mitigate in a very smart way, which is, if we do our Comite project and other things, we will manage the water that we receive so that even a thousand-year storm we can..."

"The Stafford Act is entirely insufficient to respond to this disaster."

"But then we've got to make sure that our response from Washington is targeted on responding to this storm in the most effective way, learning from other mistakes."