Political Quotes

“I want to just mention one. This is not necessarily a small business, Perry-Wynns Fish Company, out on the Chowan River, in a little town called Colerain, not far from Edenton. They had seven buildings there on the river, and every last one of them was blown down. Mike Perry was searching through the debris looking for his whistle he blew at the end of every workday, and he could not find it. Hopefully, by now, he has found that whistle. He said he had $2 million worth of property that was not insured, but he said he is going to rebuild. He is going to back up a little bit from the river and rebuild and start again. I think that is the spirit that we are going to see in a lot of our small businesses, whether they had insurance or whether they did not have it. The attitude that I saw is that we are not going to let this defeat us. We are going to get right back in the game. We are going to start our business back. We are going to serve this community as we have done in the past.”