Jay Nixon

While none of us know what that will be, our shared hope and expectation is that regardless of the decision, people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint.

These measures are not being taken because we're convinced that violence will occur, but because we have a responsibility to prepare for any contingency. The public demands and I demand that. This is America. People have a right to express…

While I listen to folks, make no mistake those were decisions that I am responsible for and while I will listen to folk's advice about them, I'm making them.

Vigorous prosecution must now be pursued. The democratically-elected St. Louis prosecutor and the Attorney General of the United States each have a job to do. Their obligation to achieve justice in the shooting death of Michael Brown must…

A vigorous prosecution must now been pursued. The democratic re-elected Saint Louis county prosecutor and the attorney general of the United States each have a job to do. Their obligation to achieve justice in the shooting death of Michael…

This is not the silence the people of Ferguson or this region or others but to contain those who were drowning out the voice of the people with their actions. We will not allow a handful of looters to endanger the rest of this community.

We're dealing with families here and the lives of people. And I'm going to continue to move a process that focuses on the personal rights and liberties of those individuals and get that information out as quickly as we possibly can.

We believe that those people deserve notification first, not by the governor talking on CNN.

Of course families need to see their loved ones. Of course they need to go beyond what's -- what's a rumor to figure out whether their 12-year-old is alive or dead. Of course they need that capacity. And we're going to press forward to…

The place this tornado hit, you know, it knocked out a hospital, Wal-Mart, Lowe's, high schools. It's total devastation.