This (plan) buys us some time so we can figure things out.

This is the next step in that road to recovery and it will buy us some time.

It's very important to see others than those of us coming in with a big chunk of money participating in the university's expansion. People who give $100 or $1,000 are just as important as those who give $1 million.

I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That's just not happening.

It's the nature of the disaster. This is far beyond anything we've ever done in this country. It's beyond our immediate capabilities for sure.

The northern Hills in particular got socked in a very short period of time, and I want us to hit it just as hard,