I'm going to tell you, Mississippi got hit much harder than they did, but what happened in the aftermath ? it makes your stomach hurt to go miles and miles and miles and the houses are all under water up to the roof,

It came in on Mississippi like a ton of bricks. It's a terrible storm.

[Bush offered Mississippi as well as Louisiana a federal takeover of relief efforts.] I told him we didn't need it, ... that we were doing well.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

The state has suffered a grievous blow on the coast,

Between the beach and the railroad, ... every house is just gone, ... Ninety percent of the structures are totally just gone. Debris (is) knee deep, waist deep, hip deep.