There are 1,400 troops here. It's so crazy. I got guys saluting me, and I'm standing here in my big old gardening hat.

I said, 'I want to talk to someone big,' ... Ten minutes later, we were with the battalion commander.

[They made it to Biloxi, Miss.] It was absolutely wiped out. If you flattened two rows of Palm Beach mansions, that's what it would look like, ... I had the four-wheel-drive on because the ocean highway washed away.

We'll get you with someone.

Right now, we're just trying to get an area out of the emergency room and into the recovery room.

[On Tuesday, 20 missions to outlying areas exposed] incredible needs, ... An hour ago, we found a lady with gangrene. Half an hour ago, we found a guy who was running out of [medical] oxygen.

I didn't give my trust to my guys.

Please be as patient with me as you can with me being an ass, ... I do have a style and it's rough, but it gets things done.

Nothing has come up that can't be solved, ... We're buried and overwhelmed, but we're solving them. I ask, 'Can you fix this problem right now?' and boom, a salute, and they take off.