It came in on Mississippi like a ton of bricks. It's a terrible storm.

I'm going to tell you, Mississippi got hit much harder than they did, but what happened in the aftermath ? it makes your stomach hurt to go miles and miles and miles and the houses are all under water up to the roof,

[Bush offered Mississippi as well as Louisiana a federal takeover of relief efforts.] I told him we didn't need it, ... that we were doing well.

It hit me like a ton of bricks,

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

It felt like I was playing with a ton of bricks on my chest.