1803 - The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of…

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the…

— Noah Feldman

“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And…

— Edward E. Baptist

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have…

— John Breaux

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

— Billy Tauzin

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

“Too much Cajun in you, Brooke. Too much Louisiana.”

— Will Dean

“Move aside Ebola, smallpox, and AIDS; make room for narcolepsy. I would become shunned and avoided. Perhaps the people at the casino thought that…

— John-Talmage Mathis

Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea…

— Douglas Brinkley

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

— Paul Prudhomme

“In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that there aren’t…

— John-Talmage Mathis

Discrimination isn't welcome in Louisiana, but as is the case often, folks running for office seem to forget that we have an obligation to…

— John Bel Edwards

To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does,…

— Michael Doucet

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits,…

— John-Talmage Mathis

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

— John Kennedy