"You've got to make the argument, you can't just say we've been here for 13 years and it's not really worked with 60 members, " he added.

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By the time Ike got here, we just had - you know a decent storm here in the Caribbean but it didn't feel like a hurricane coming through.

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And that is just a false moving of the chains here when we -- you got to compare apples to apples.

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If we want a recovery the lasts, if we want an economy that really grows again, we've got to rebuild stronger than before -- just like you're doing here in New Orleans.

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The third thing I want to say, the most important thing I have to say is football starts today. (Applause.) So we intend to be finished to get home in time for kickoff. (Applause.) I don't know -- I know you've got a lot of teams here in Florida, but in Illinois there's just one team -- the Chicago Bears.

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