#mississippi

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#arkansas #back #bank #come #i

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#concerned #cost #else #everybody #everybody else

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#locks #many #mississippi #mississippi river #most

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#god #mississippi #saying #texas #thank

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#education #executions #first #funding #mississippi

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#east #east side #into #land #large

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans. ↗

— Ron Kind

#co-chair #congressional #force #founder #future