As soon as we get that, we're ready to get everything going.

It really is an ongoing effort to improve the security of our state's critical infrastructure and utilities. It's nice to have a federal grant program that allows us to do that.

People save themselves and others a lot of grief and a lot of heartache if they follow simple rules during flooding and high runoff.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.