Garret Graves actually said...

"I want to thank you very much for hosting this today. Congressman Casten, thanks for coming."

"We lose a football field of land approximately every hour, a football field every hour."

"It doesn't matter if you are Republican, Democrat, green, purple, blue, white, whatever. When your land is being taken, when your home is going underwater, when your business is going underwater, when..."

"I want to thank all of you for being here to participate in your government. This is what the United States looks like."