I'm asking all of you to do your very best to get as many people to safe ground as possible. It occurs to me that a lot of people went to bed last night thinking that hurricane was going to Florida, ... I got a report at 7 o'clock that there were about 700 people doing Little League ball in the New Orleans area. |
I'm asking our citizens to please understand the seriousness of our situation, ... ... It is too dangerous to come home. |
I'm just as pleased as I can be that we were able to expedite the process of getting a Louisiana firm on site, working as quickly as possible and actually, I think, a little head of schedule, |
I'm not going to stand here and play the blame game, ... We have a problem. Let's get to the problem. |
I'm very encouraged by the messages I got, |
I've got my own power-packed people endorsing me, and I think they know how to get the vote out, ... I'll fall back on my friends that cross all kinds of boundaries. |
If Rita passes us by, we will thank the Lord for our blessings, |
If there's a loss of life, it will be minimal, |
If we lost life, I'd be surprised, |
If we redo the Dome, which I think is everyone's favorite idea, we still need a source of revenue to come from that particular region, ... And of course, a new stadium would need additional revenue. |
If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence, |
If you help us with these incentives, we believe we only have to step aside and let business |
ignore ancient rivalries of politics, race and religion. |
In Cameron, there's really hardly anything left. Everything is just obliterated. |
In death, as in life, our people deserve more respect and dignity, ... The failure to execute a contract for the recovery of our citizens has hurt the speed of recovery efforts. |