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«I urge all Mississippians to please take this storm seriously, ... Now is the time to prepare yourself, your family and your friends.»

«This is a small solution, ... We are going to look at base camps and modular cities, if you will. But I just want to say to you we are not where we need to be on temporary housing.»

«Obviously, we regret the base closure commission's decision about Pascagoula, but it's no surprise, ... As we said when Pascagoula was first put on the list, all the naval vessels at Pascagoula either have been or are scheduled for decommissioning, and it's hard for the defense department to keep a naval base that doesn't have any ships.»

«[The Federal Emergency Management Agency, its top ranks filled by political appointees and its budget hit by deep cuts, seemed unable to grasp the magnitude of the disaster. On the day after the storm, FEMA director Michael Brown met in Biloxi, Miss., with Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and told him not to worry, because FEMA had had lots of hurricane practice in Florida.] I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.»

«The National Policy Forum, like all 501c organizations, is allowed to take contributions from foreign companies and individuals, ... Political parties don't do that, think tanks and others can, and many of them do.»

«For him to say that is the equivalent of me saying Ronnie Musgrove helped hook our kids on crystal methamphetamine because he didn't oppose a 40-percent cut in the state Bureau of Narcotics drug enforcement budget,»

«If I said something like that, I would be pilloried. There is a line somewhere. Are the newspapers of the world just going to shrug it off when he says something like that?»

«It's no secret that Mississippi's image around the country and around the world is not as good as it ought to be, ... One of the things that helps our image is any time visitors come and see Mississippi and meet Mississippians. This casino industry brings millions of people here. Those people like what they see. They like the people that they meet.»

«Eliminating the federal share of CPB funding would free up $400 million this year, ... That is enough money to build 40 elementary schools.»

«Eliminating the federal share of CPB funding would free up $400 million this year. That is enough money to build 40 elementary schools.»