Garret Graves: “We simply went back and tried to focus the resources and concentration and attention on the environment.”

Closed primaries, they said, distort democracy. They distort free markets.

I think that is fair, and I think they deserve it.

The Federal Government used to just throw billions and billions of dollars in the aftermath of a disaster and didn't pay appropriate attention, in my opinion, on the front end of what we can do to actually avert disasters.

Closed primaries, he said, distort democracy. They distort free markets.