George Bush actually said...

People aren't leaving. They're hitching up their britches and rebuilding Mississippi.

Context

Commencement Address at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Biloxi, Mississippi

05/10/2006

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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