19 Quotes by Jim Compton

We tore everything out of here. All that was left when we started was the floors and the walls.

You have to know the importance of this operation with three cabinet members coming to the site. If this site is that critical, then I suggest they provide the money to make sure the power supplies to the two pipelines will not be affected by the next hurricane.

We were led to believe a national emergency was created when the pipelines were shut down.

a presidential directive to get those pipelines operating.

A lot of people wanted their power restored. A lot of people were put out of business and a lot of local business people needed their power also.

It was my decision to balance what was most important to people in South Mississippi with this all-of-a-sudden national crisis of not enough gas or diesel fuel,

They did it in 16 hours, and I consider the effort unprecedented.

In the future, the federal government needs to give us guidelines if this is such a national emergency so that I can work that in my plans.

I reluctantly agreed to pull half our transmission line crews off other projects and made getting the transmission lines to the Collins substations a priority,