Political Quotes

“my remarks tonight have nothing to do with political party or political ideology. In fact it has rather to do with something much more basic than that, disaster of an unprecedented character that has inundated the second largest city in the State that I represent, the State of North Dakota, and caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage up and down the Red River in light of the disastrous floods we continue to experience. During the next few minutes I want to brief my colleagues about what brought this about, what weather circumstances were out there that caused flooding of this unprecedented character. Mr. Speaker, I want to tell my colleagues of the preparations made to fight the flood, because I think it is important that they understand we did not just sit and give way to the river. In fact, this is only the final stages of what had been a heroic several-week period of frantic effort to beat these waters back. I want to tell you, sadly, about how the battle for Grand Forks was lost and how the city has now been totally inundated and the consequences of it. I want to bring you up to date in terms of how people are coping with this disaster and assess finally where we go from here.”