Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

We've been able to improve our warning system. Our records on tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, on flood warnings have been improving,

We are getting ready for a major flood fight.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Elliott Abrams

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

Since it's just cresting over the flood stage, it's minor flooding that we're forecasting. You probably don't need a canoe, but it's probably wise to move vehicles out of the area.

Charles Dickens

Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.

Miles before we got there, you could smell the stench of all this rotting from the flood ... even from up in the air, ... I would be surprised if people would be able to move back very soon, just from the level of destruction.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

Bob Riley

The primary threat posed by Hurricane Katrina is going to be flooding from storm surge, so those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground.

Last year we did have flooding in Cache Valley and Brigham City.

Michael Chertoff

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

We do have a flood watch out because of a possibility of rain, but that rainfall has mostly moved on. We may end it early.

But it's in a flood plain. So that made no sense.

New Orleans is flooding and southwest Louisiana is baking.

Don Powell

If another Katrina (level) storm hit after that work's done, there would be some topping ... but the flooding would be all manageable. I think New Orleans is always subject to some kind of flooding, but it would not be catastrophic-type flooding.

Erik Brynjolfsson

We're just being flooded with content. And people are increasingly relying on recommenders to help them sort through it all.

Mike Mitchell

We used to flood our neighbors to the east, but with the playground improvement it was not a problem this time.

What I really liked seeing was that we're not flooding the floor after the game. I walked into the locker room and our guys are all sitting down. They're not satisfied yet. We're not satisfied yet.

I would say we've made great gains since 1997, 'the flood of the century', and we've taken many measures to make sure that we are protected as much as we possibly can.

Julie Gerberding

What we don't want is for people to flood in in a disorganized way,

It could have been worst in terms of flooding and people dying. But we've got a lot of clean-up to do before we can say it is over.

John Corey Whaley

I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'

There is a flood of television series hitting the market,

We're preparing for potential inland flooding and tornadoes.

We may not like the message ... but our flood elevations are going to change. We're going to have to live with the results.

He had to roll up his pants and wade through flood waters to get to the taxi,

If we get more rain, we will see more flood warnings.

If we get flooding next month in May, it won't be anything like 1997.

Bruce Gordon

If we had significant flooding down here, we'd have to shut the systems down.

Wayne Allard

If this is to become a perpetual government program, like flood insurance, the industry should be honest about it.

We have considerably more flood protection in place in Grand Forks than we had in 1997 or even in 2001.

We're trying to keep the river right at its capacity, right at flood stage at Monroe.