Political Quotes

Nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that this is just another surge. We`ve already had three of these. This is the worst one we`ve had thus far.

Many of the life supporting infrastructure elements are not present. They`re not operating right now. So if you have already evacuated, do not return here or elsewhere in southeast Louisiana until the Office of Emergency Preparedness tells you it is ready to receive you.

If there`s a silver lining, and today, it`s kind of hard to see one, it is that our levee systems really did perform extremely well.

Quite frankly, I am amazed that we didn't have more loss of life in Louisiana than we had. I'm very thankful for it.