Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

If you want to make a difference, make the difference.

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.