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I'm told it's the only gas station in southern Mississippi. They'd better not run out.

Robert Browning

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Sally Thompson

Help is coming to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. We're coming.

Patricia Coyle

We believe the Jackson market is a fast-growing area in Mississippi and want to be part of that growth.

David Chadwick

We loved the whole Mississippi River aspect of it. You can't exactly recreate that.

David Webb

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

Buddy Guy

We're helping students from the roughly 30 schools that announced they are closed indefinitely in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

John Beacon

Even at the last minute, the state of Mississippi had put together something that was just completely out of this world when I looked at the breakdown of it.

Pat Townsend Jr

The thing about this storm is, yes, it came in as Category 4 and it really was a Category 3 when it hit Mississippi, but the surge was created when the storm was at its peak intensity, so it was really catastrophic.

Tom Moore

The system weakened as it hit Slidell (La.). It really didn't do much to Mississippi.

Tim Destri

It was my decision to balance what was most important to people in South Mississippi with this all-of-a-sudden national crisis of not enough gas or diesel fuel.

Jim Compton

My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.

David Monk

There is some indication that the Mississippi senators are interested in doing what's right.

Bill Chandler

Everything there looks like Mississippi from the air, just devastated. Highway 23 is closed due to standing water or just being washed away.

Mickey Driver

I think the hurricane kind of passed through there and knocked the power out, but I wouldn't have gone north through Mississippi if I had known the hurricane was going through there. But looking back, it was a good thing.

Andy Esten

I am not looking at this game that way. It's an honor to get selected. I want to go out and win my last high school game in Mississippi.

David Booker

The tragedy in Louisiana and Mississippi has laid bare severe shortcomings in our ability to respond to catastrophe.

Peter Sullivan

A group of ladies from Mississippi have their electricity back on and can get back to their homes now. So, these ladies needed cleaning supplies.

Karen Jones

They called themselves that because (Mississippi) is where the crack was coming from. There's a federal investigation that's kind of parallel with this; but I'm not sure if there are any federal charges going along with this at this time.

Dennis Fowler

We were really impressed that we were chosen and flattered that we were chosen to represent the Mississippi coast as far as rebuilding goes.

Jerry Akins

It will serve as a constant reminder of what's been going on. The magnolia is the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi.

Ken Ehrlich

Instead of losing jobs, Mississippi is gaining jobs. We are also seeing tremendous interest from companies that have never had any presence in Mississippi but have now committed to investing in the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

John Harral

There are still feeding operations in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Jenny Lehman

This is our tsunami. You're going to be looking at hundreds dead along the coast of Mississippi.

Aj Holloway

I like Mississippi State, Ole Miss, any school in Mississippi.

Mario Foster

We don't know yet how all that has happened in Mississippi really affects the company's balance sheet.

Brian Gordon

In rural Mississippi, it is sometimes harder to get to them.

Pete Smith

We favor state control over federal bureaucracy. The needs in Mississippi are vastly different than the needs in California.

Jenny Manley

I can't think of any place in Mississippi where such an example exists.

Roger Wicker

It is a setback to a lot of farmers, ... but farmers in Mississippi are very resilient. They'll be back.

Patrick Sullivan

There are a lot of Mississippi connections here.

George Phillips

We're still growing in Mississippi. We have 37 stores in your state.

Carol Hively

This is unparalleled in Mississippi. This is a new Mississippi.

Lawrence Guyot

This is way of telling everybody about Main Street Mississippi and how it works.

Bob Wilson

We are well aware of what happened in Louisiana and Mississippi with Hurricane Katrina.

Rick Gentry

We have direct communications with Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Washington, D.C., at all times.

Howard Butt

Had Ivan hit Mississippi, the storm surges in Mississippi would have been higher than those in Florida.

Todd Davison

We had challenges, and we met those challenges. We did so for the citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Bob Mckee

My prayers are with the people in New Orleans, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.

Brandon Harrison

By May we could do something that would affect 50 little communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This is our start.

Joe Gilchrist

I will do nothing that hinders the recovery effort in the state of Mississippi.

Randy Perkins

I am also worried about my step-dad, Frank McNeil, of Biloxi, Mississippi.

Mary Benson

Find him guilty of murder, ... That's the verdict that the state of Mississippi asks you to return.

Mark Duncan

Everybody wants to have their child close to home. It's great to have him back with the Mississippi family. That's going to be a great opportunity for him also.

Frank Kennedy

Overall, the Army was a good experience for me. It got me out of Mississippi and gave me the benefits of the GI bill.

David Wallace

There's a stream running through the entire course that feeds into the Mississippi at the end. Water is a factor on every hole.

Billy Pierce

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there.

John Grisham

They're going to be rebuilt by the people from Mississippi.

Tony Bush

We are making progress and we are going to stay in the area. This will be continuing in the Mississippi area for months if not years to come. We intend to stay there.

Jim Paul

There is the misperception that all of coastal Alabama suffered the same type of damage that impacted Mississippi, and that's not the case.

Lee Sentell

Hopefully, Mississippi lawmakers will continue realize these employer mandates are bad for working families.

Kelly Hobbs

In Mississippi some people didn't know we were there until we knocked on their door.

David Richards

We've heard that Mississippi State is a tough place to play. They are a good defensive team and it's a hostile environment.

Danny Ware

People kept telling us that everything is going to Mississippi and Louisiana and they feel forgotten.

Karen Vanhyfte

It's cheaper than reimbursing staff for travel in what is one of the largest districts east of the Mississippi.

Sage Eastman

We don't need to waste anything in south Mississippi.

Joe Spraggins

[The event is being called] Killen Appreciation Day, ... It's an old-fashioned Mississippi homecoming. It's held for sports figures and beauty queens. Why not political prisoners?

Richard Barrett

Well, I cried. This is the first time that my mom and sister have seen me play here, and this is the first time they've been to Mississippi.

Latoya Wily

It's the best decision we could have made. There's no way to play a game with everything going on. With everything that happened in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, football is the last thing on people's minds.

Johnny Thomas

And Mississippi drove a truck through it.

Susan Hill

With Mississippi being No. 1 in fire deaths, I can't believe we have trouble passing a code like this.

Marsanne Golsby

We've been in contact with the authorities in Mississippi and Louisiana and indicated our willingness to help out, but we've not been asked for help yet.

Peter Gregg

We're going to be in a recovery effort for a good long time. But the state is not facing the same problems that the state of Louisiana and Mississippi are experiencing.

Scott Adcock

I certainly don't think we got the coverage that we need or the attention or the realization that Mississippi is in dire straits and in the condition it is.

Sela Ward

For most people, you think of a second, you think of one-Mississippi. But a lot can happen in one-Mississippi.

Geoff Chester

They'll eat it, ... We'll fly on a chopper from Mississippi.

Brendan Murphy

We should be thankful we don't live in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama.

Lisa Smith

Mississippi is one the three states, along with Nevada and New Jersey, that understood gaming.

Terry Lanni

In doing so, they have defrauded the state of Mississippi.

Jim Hood

It is different in every state division, so I am not aware of what Louisiana and Mississippi regulations are. Hopefully they took the rolling deductible into consideration so we don't have another insurance incident like Andrew.

John Benson

Our board has been very consistent and aggressive in its opposition to the expansion of gambling outside the existing confines of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

Ross Summers

I spent 20 years in Nashville and my Mom lives in Mississippi.

Gary Morris

We've got companies from all over the world looking at investing here in Mississippi.

John Harral

The senator does not believe Mississippi or the rest of the nation will accept this.

Lee Youngblood

These numbers have been reported to the Red Cross, as well as the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

Gary Galloway

It's tough when you lose to think you're awesome. I know when we won a couple games in a row, we were so confident going into the (Mississippi) State game we knew we were going to win. Doubts can come in when you're losing.

Todd Abernethy

The US Central Command Air Forces is sending 300 Active Duty and Air Force Reserve Airmen home who were assigned to Keesler Air Force Base (in Biloxi, Mississippi) so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina.

David Small

Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi -- all three -- are trying to get a handle on which offenders they don't have and where they might be.

Tela Mange

I'm very relieved it didn't go into the mouth of the Mississippi, ... That would have been catastrophic.

Andrea Phillips

You hope Mississippi is a better place.

Dean Anderson

I've learned from those mistakes, so we're going to put that game behind us and focus on Mississippi State.

Brandon Cox

This is home for me, so it's a whole different experience. Down in Mississippi, you don't really know the folks you're helping. Here, everybody's like our family. This is different, this is our own backyard.

Roy Childress

There's a perception of Mississippi that is inaccurate. We are viewed as being at the bottom.

Blake Wilson

It's a really great thing for volunteers to have. It makes them more useful during a disaster. When I went to Mississippi for Katrina, there were times down there when they didn't have enough drivers.

Michael Hepp

But try telling that to some guy driving through Mississippi on a hot day in July.

David Caldwell

We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.

Gary Adams

We're looking at Mississippi firms. They are certainly one being considered.

Michael Logue

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Susan Jackson

It's a challenging job. I'm not necessarily anxious to leave and I really love being on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but it's a significant pay increase. Quite frankly, I didn't come out of the storm very well. I've got some significant financial issues coming out of the storm.

Stephen Richer

We have told the federal government that we here in the city of Detroit are willing to step up and accept evacuees from both Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kwame Kilpatrick

The Mississippi River is always the failsafe. You can always find bald eagles below the lock and dam.

Bruce Ehresman

It is certainly nothing like what Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana had to deal with, but the efforts are still ongoing.

John Fuller

On the Mississippi coast, the water went in and went out - in New Orleans, it went in and sat there.

John Day

The real lesson (from Katrina) that I think the citizens learned is that the people in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi did not leave in time, ... We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving.

Ann Thomas

There is no other area in the country that needs our industry's help like the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It's literally devastated.

Bruce Beckham

I had already put Mississippi State behind me, but it was good to get on the board.

John Vaughn

Mississippi was loaded this year. We're tickled to death.

Jay Hopson

I always wanted to be close to home so that my family can come and watch me. I know I'm going to be taken care of over there. I wanted to keep it in Mississippi and try to win something here.

Mystee Dale

That Mississippi mud is perhaps the most valuable thing we have in Louisiana at this time.

Harry Roberts

I love the river, ... We lived right on the Mississippi, four blocks away.

Joyce Smith

At the very least we have one more. We left our canteen down in Mississippi for another Salvation Army group to use, and we'll have to take another shift to get it back.

John Quinn

FEMA is going to be here. We're not going to leave Mississippi until we're done.

David Paulson

Do you really believe that racial and denominational reconciliation are possible, ... I do. That's why I'm part of Mission Mississippi Delta.

Robert Pitts

It's nice to have a voice and to be able to use it in events like this, ... Mississippi Girl.

Lance Bass

I'm very happy here. I love the people here. I love doing what I'm doing. I love getting things back together... This has nothing to do with how I feel about the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Stephen Richer

What an ambassador he's been for the state of Mississippi.

Bill Nichols

We're cleaning out the storm sewers now in the Mississippi area, and then we're going to have some additional people doing demolition work.

Bill Rhodes

Basic fairness means the displaced people in Florida should be handled the same as those in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Clay Shaw

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it.

Nancy Chambers

There's justice for all in Mississippi.

James Hood

This year boiled down to the fact that so many dealers in Mississippi and Alabama got hit hard and are not back up. We'll be back in the spring of 2007.

Matt Mcdonald

His performance was the most impressive I've ever seen. He set all-time Mississippi records, and that means in any class or any kind of meet.

Chad Rhodes

There's no scenario now that takes it toward Louisiana or Mississippi, but that could change.

Max Mayfield

This might be a good time to revisit the entire subject of legalized gambling in Mississippi.

William Perkins

We've been bulking up our administrative and executive layers in Charlotte. We want to shift more of the load to Charlotte because it is much closer to our members, who are mostly east of the Mississippi.

Kevin Evans

If we have a job opening and we get a good applicant from Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama with solid credentials, we would not hesitate to put them in a classroom setting.

David Sharp

This disaster especially hits home to us, since those affected include thousands of Tyson Team Members who live in Mississippi.

John Tyson

We had a chance to go to Mississippi or Alabama, but we decided to come here. We want to be not only a blessing, but to make a difference, even if it's in the life of only one of the 300 children.

George Saunders

It's not like there's five tankers on the Mississippi River with the old stuff.

Dave Sykuta

The Great Mississippi Flood.

Clint Black

I cannot imagine the grief and the horror that the people in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are undergoing.

George Noory

We have 17 export facilities along the Mississippi river, with 10 million tons daily capacity and 55 million bushels static capacity.

Ken Erickson

Everybody knows somebody or has family ? why, my boss has six brothers who live on the Mississippi River ? who are affected by this.

Bill Howell

If I live to be 97, we will never forget the kindness of the people of Mississippi, the people of Jackson , and people of this hotel.

Richard Friedman

We have been contacted by several member schools that already have enrolled students from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi displaced by the storm.

John Stewart

Most of the people participating are coming from the east of the Mississippi, and we want to make it exciting enough so everyone from all over the country would want to go.

Phil Allen

The loss is tragic since it was reportedly the oldest home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was one of the few homes not damaged by Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Joe Malugen

We continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi, ... The devastation from Hurricane Katrina is tremendous.

David Lemmon

All too often, the Arkansans I talk to think of their competitors as being in the state of Mississippi.

Jeff Collins

Our best-sellers are probably the Mississippi Mud brownies and, of course, everybody loves chocolate chip cookies.

Navarrete Ashford

I'm very concerned personally. I have some friends at the University of Southern Mississippi and I understand it's gone.

Michael Schwartz

I had just graduated from high school when Camille came through the Gulf coast of Mississippi, which is where my family continues to live.

Suzette Dawson

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

Medgar Evers

After the first of the year, the governor will ask for specific funds for economic development and tourism to re-market the state of Mississippi.

Craig Ray

This is huge. This is the biggest tournament west of the Mississippi ... we need to carry this momentum into league.

Mike Viola

Mississippi is providing more relevant evidence to us, ... We would expect the damage to be devastating. It won't be safe to be in any building in a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.

Peter Elwell

[Colwell's reputation as a filmmaker has expanded beyond Mississippi.] Scott's the 'go to' guy for Between the Lions, ... The guys from Boston and New York were blown away by him.

Gene Edwards

A huge supply comes out of that region (hit by Katrina). Some of the biggest pipelines in the country come through Mississippi.

Roy Mahone

I sign the checks, so I know. We have exceeded our contract requirements 15-fold in Mississippi.

Randy Perkins

In Mississippi, there is a church on every corner. We all know who Jesus is. You don't grow up in Mississippi not knowing who Jesus is, but we all find ourselves away sometimes. You get lost sometimes and lose your way. CMA helps motorcyclists find their way back.

Gayla Bridges

Excited, nervous, very grateful to have the opportunity to go and to see what we can do to help the folks along the gulf coast of Mississippi.

Karen Stewart

We're all still speculating about crop damage, a week after the hurricane, ... From what I've been able to determine, the biggest losses in Mississippi will be from the poultry and catfish industries.

Thomas Gregory

I don't think we can change voting precincts between the primary and the general elections. I'll check with the Mississippi County Election Commission on that but I don't think there will be any changes in precincts until after this election cycle.

Wayne Wagner

The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama.

Michael Brown

A lot of people feel the Mississippi Gulf Coast could be as beautiful and amenable as the Florida Panhandle.

Elizabeth Moule

We feel we have a person whose leadership, experience and courage in his past jobs can help Mississippi State succeed.

Ed Blakeslee

The Wheel of Fortune dollar system in Mississippi is statistically overdue to hit.

Ed Rogich

We know so many people and have extensive connections to families and friends in Louisiana and Mississippi, so this is the least we can do. People should also know that absolutely every penny that we raise at this event is going directly to the people and families that have been so greatly affected.

Zakk Wylde