Garret Graves actually said...

"We've got to work to get it right."

"If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement community, why would you not do that?"

"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..."

"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."