Save the stonewall to build the levees.

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

— Bryan Batt

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues…

— Alan Freed

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again -…

— Billy Tauzin

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

— William Congreve

After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at the coast.…

— Wangari Maathai

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will…

— Brian Ross

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

— Don McLean

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves…

— Seth Shostak

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that…

— Mitch Landrieu

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New…

— Mark Twain

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

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life…

— Joel Miller