Garret Graves actually said...

"We're going to donate in charity and volunteer our way out of the fourth most costly disaster in the United States--flood disaster in United States history."

"I don't think that can work that way."

"I just want us to be fair and try to work in a way to just get people what we can give them right now."

"If our first thought is always that America's citizens are looking for a way to beat the system, then we're never going to make any progress."