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're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.

Any flooding is an issue, ... We?re just thankful we were able to recover from the flooding we?ve had.

Normally, we wouldn't have problems with street flooding until we get 1½ to 2 inches of rain.

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.

Joe Thomas

Flooding is the big killer when it comes to hurricanes.

Don Gibson

Flooding is addressed in permits, water quality is addressed in permits, stability... just some of the things I've heard here tonight.

Zhu Rongji

even more severe flooding than that in 1998.

We want to give people a heads up. The potential is there for heavy flooding rains.

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.

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

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.

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.

Max Mayfield

People need to understand that the greatest potential for large loss of life is from the storm surge flooding near the coastline,

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system,

Dan White

We pulled some wood out of the culvert. This is just natural runoff, and it's flooding out into the street.

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?'

We're preparing for potential inland flooding and tornadoes.

D. H. Lawrence

Unless we submit our will to the flooding of life, there is no life in us.

Edmund Stoiber

We have a flooding catastrophe, but we also have another catastrophe ... our exceptionally high unemployment,

In the foothills, that's where the heaviest rain will be. Down here in the Valley we're not looking at any significant flooding to threaten homes.

Instead of water flooding in, we've got people flooding in. The levee of people broke.

I'm just worried about the wind damage. The flooding I am not worried about, at least not at my house.

I'm not saying that this would not have occurred in New Orleans in this situation, ... I am saying that there would have been less flooding if all the projects had been funded.

I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have.

It's done to relieve flooding pressures around Lake Okeechobee, protect lives and property around the lake, and that's why we had to do this.

The flooding killed a whole lot more trees than the wind killed.

Michael Brown

The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,

The flooding hasn't started yet, but we are already prepared.

The problem is that the villagers leave their houses only at the last moment when the waters start flooding in. We really have to persuade them to leave earlier,