Political Quotes

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards acted early.

I will just tell you that I had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe that the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in certain places that they have every reason to believe were inhabited at the time the damage occurred.

Our ability to address Louisiana's climate-related challenges... relies heavily on sustainable and predictable oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

Either pain on shore with everything that was advertised. The surge, the rain, the wind, all of our levee systems, particularly our federal levee systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed magnificently. Having said that, the damage is still catastrophic.