"Usually, state and local officials on the ground have the best understanding of the issues affecting people in their states."

Some states said they will develop coordinated regional plans.

"What we've got to do is take everything we had planned to do in the street and do it through...

"When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total, and that's the way it's got to...

"He was ranting and raving for the better part of the last hour during that news conference."