Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
Haley Reeves Barbouris an American Republican politician who served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He was given a national spotlight in August 2005 when Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. He served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997. Prior to holding elective office, Barbour was a lobbyist and co-founder of the Washington lobbying firm BGR Group. which he again joined after his service as governor. Barbour also co-chairs the Bipartisan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
It came in on Mississippi like a ton of bricks. It's a terrible storm.
I hate to say it, but my term as governor lasts for 2 1/2 more years, and for 2 1/2 more years I'm going to be standing in front of you saying: Be patient, ... Life as usual in Mississippi is not something we're going to recover for a long time?. That's just a fact.
If I said something like that, I would be pilloried. There is a line somewhere. Are the newspapers of the world just going to shrug it off when he says something like that?
I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.
Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.
I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.
For those people, we are working very hard that if they don't have insurance or if they don't have coverage, that we can come up with a way to help them financially, help to make them whole,
Today, I saw reporters cry, ... And mayors. And deputy sheriffs.
We're preparing for the worst and praying for the best,
What we want to avoid are gigantic trailer parks, for lack of a better word,
There are structures after structures that survived Camille with minor damage that are not there any more.
We know we've had some loss of life. We really don't know how much. There are credible accounts of 50 to 80 in Harrison County. Those are not confirmed, but they're credible,
We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.
We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.