I believe a dialog with each side is my most effective assistance to the sides holding negotiations on the coalition.

The counties listed in the letter submitted by the governor for federal assistance are those most impacted by the recent storms and needing the extra federal assistance.

If we can be more proactive on disasters -- the way we fund them, the way we plan for them -- then we can have better preparedness, we can have more efficient responses, and the assistance is more effective in the end.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

And all this public assistance that will be streaming in is going to benefit the Democrats, and I resent it as a Republican,

We're leveling the assistance that's being put out there.

Jails may accommodate the religious needs of inmates by funding chaplains' services that offer assistance to all prisoners regardless of their faith. But they cannot pay a Christian ministry to bring only the Christian message into their jails.

We've been stockpiling fuel, just in case. We have enough on hand that we'll still be able to provide police and fire protection and public works assistance if there is a temporary shortage.

They weren't really getting that good of assistance in Baton Rouge, so I loaded them up in the car and said, 'Let's go to Houston,' ... Took them to the Astrodome, and we stood in lines. I really did walk the walk with a lot of the evacuees. I was just trying to do my part.

France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American companies work closely with them. If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi government to work with them.