Mississippi Rising is going to be a tremendous boost not just in providing desperately needed funds for our recovery effort, but also in bringing national attention to our efforts as we transition from emergency relief to rebuilding Mississippi stronger, bigger and better. |
[Bush offered Mississippi as well as Louisiana a federal takeover of relief efforts.] I told him we didn't need it, ... that we were doing well. |
[Mr. Barbour called the moment an opportunity to rebuild the coast into a world-class destination resort made up of sprawling, state-of-the-art entertainment complexes rather than simply rebuilding what was there.] In 30 years, when I'm dead and gone, people will look at the south coast and look at what it has become, ... If it has become just another version of what it had been, we will have failed. |
[Politicians adopted different postures:] I have instructed the Highway Patrol and the National Guard to treat looters ruthlessly, ... Looting will not be tolerated, period. And the rules of engagement will be as aggressive as the law allows. |
[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. |
a lot bigger and better. |
absolutely and entirely consistent with what I campaigned on. |
After Camille in 1969, another opportunity was lost, |
And I hate to say it, I think there are going to be more. |
and open your homes to them. |
Before I was chairman they were generous donors, and they were while I was chairman. |
Between the beach and the railroad, ... every house is just gone, ... Ninety percent of the structures are totally just gone. Debris (is) knee deep, waist deep, hip deep. |
Big business has no party and never shall have. |
Creating a renaissance in this area is what I'm working on for the rest of the time I'm governor, |
Eliminating the federal share of CPB funding would free up $400 million this year, ... That is enough money to build 40 elementary schools. |