You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O`Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
Ken Burns
When you build things that are below flood elevations you now have to do engineering to try to overcome what Mother Nature normally tries to do.
Dick Miller
We’ve had a lot of flood mitigation issues, and this grant will go a long way toward solving some of them. But it’s going to take several years, and probably several more grants like this one, to completely solve the problem. I think what this really ...
William Clark
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles Rangel
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
Warren Christopher
Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation`s trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in stee...
Peter Kelly
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
Gary Miller
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
Gary Miller
They were in a spot with little flood damage but tremendous wind damage, ... They asked us if we could hoist him and his four dogs. Finally he said he would come by himself, with a chainsaw, so he could help other people who needed it.
Dan Taylor
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Andrae Hernandez
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
Richard Reeves
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don`t have to participate.
Alba Quinones
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open mark...
Gary Miller
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open mark...
Gary Miller
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Robert Trout
The biggest problem facing us is the amount of water they`re letting into the creek from Lake Hamilton, ... They don`t have the right to flood us. We need an advocate to represent us.
John Wood
The big concern is tomorrow. What`s tomorrow going to bring us if what they`re predict happens? Then we could have a pretty good flood probably.
Bryan Moore
That requires the heavy lift ship to actually ballast or flood down. It could appear to the casual observer that a ship is sinking in Elliot Bay.
John Lockwood
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.
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.
Michael Chertoff
Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the...
Anthony Richards
Once we remove both houses, the intent is to let the flood plain just become a natural area. It would be similar to what you see under power lines.
Bach Yaibn Pakuda
Most people hear `When the Levee Breaks` and they go, `Well, it`s just an homage to the 1927 Mississippi flood, the source of all these blues songs, so it`s really more about the blues.` Or they say, somewhat more cleverly, it`s actually about fear of wom...
Franz Ferdinand
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore White
