You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by mother nature.

In the military as in any organization giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.