Don't drink the water. We have no idea what's in the water. Do not drink the water. We are working feverishly to find a way to get water to everybody.

We want to head off the rumors before they can do any damage.

It is just absolutely amazing that 2 weeks after August 29 we are standing where we are at.

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

We know there are people in other parts of the county who are alive and could be rescued and have not been. We're trying to get to them. . . . It's happening every minute that we're finding somebody in the rubble or hanging out of a building and has been fighting [to live] for the last few days.

We've got to get these things up. We've got to get ourselves back together.

A Friday night football game would bring a lot of normalcy.

We have no idea what is in that water.