"I did call Congressman Graves. We did get water."
"So homes will be not only--have they been not only underwater, now they're going to be underwater and people walking away and their jobs."
"We've got to work to get it right."
"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."
"This is an entirely insufficient situation."
"And, most essentially, we need that $2 billion Community Development Block Grant program so that we can try to go in and convince these people that the right thing to do is to stay in their communitie..."
"It is absolutely unacceptable to think that we're going to find a way to charity ourselves out of this thing."
"There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free."