John Bel Edwards

The laws of this land should be made by Congress, not by any Federal agency.

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.

The Corps shouldn't always choose the cheapest option.

Sometimes we have to go beyond what we've done in the past, especially in the area of equity.

It's going to benefit tremendously from this project.

We have a great partnership with the Corps of Engineers, and it's not perfect and so forth.

Through our Coastal Master Plan, Louisiana has articulated a clear, widely supported vision for a more sustainable coast.

Alignment with the Corps is absolutely critical to our success.

LDH inspectors visited the site and I will tell you, were expelled from the property and prevented from conducting the full assessment.

The water system is really poor. Electricity is non-existent. Communications actually started getting a little bit better today. We have not figured out the fuel situation. Don`t come back before the parish tells you that they are ready to…

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, you know, I will be surprised -- not pleasantly surprised, but unpleasantly surprised if it actually is 30 days before we start to see power being restored.

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…

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…

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…

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.

There's been a preliminary damage assessment of levees today, people getting eyes on those levees. We don't believe there was a single levee anywhere now that actually breached that failed.

Louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise quote considerably.

The governor of this state has been very responsible about trying to ensure that masks can occur where they need to.

As bad as things have been over the last couple of weeks, they`ve just been tend to move in the wrong direction, 2907 individuals in the hospital with COVID-19. That`s the highest we`ve ever had in any given day. We`re in a bad place.

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.

We are very unfortunately in a position that we had hoped that we had pray that we`ve worked very hard to avoid. But quite simply, the Delta variant is an absolute game changer, superimposed as it is in Louisiana on a state that is not…

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards acted early.

I strongly reported the police's decision to release that footage.

Louisiana has tremendous potential for carbon capture.