Our arms are opened wide for them to come work for us and we'd like to assist them to be a teacher in Arkansas.

For the long term, the best way to help is to support local nonprofits, ... [Katrina evacuees] will be with us for a while, and we are the ones that are prepared to handle this long term and go the distance.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

We're hoping maybe they can give us some input. It's unique there because you've got casinos, mega hotel resorts and condominiums. We think we're probably more akin to Las Vegas than to Destin, Fla. Destin was pretty much born of condominiums. They had a few hotels, but their condominiums are what put them on the map.

It just skirted around us.