Louisiana Quotes · Page 4

“Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

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

— Paul Prudhomme

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

— Vince Staples

Louisiana values both compassion and sustainable employment that provides for our families.

— John Bel Edwards

“This is Louisiana, we don't have basements because of the water level.”

— Leah Rae Miller

Under my administration, Louisiana veterans can rest assured that veterans matter personally to me.

— John Bel Edwards

In Louisiana, we are known for our ability to come together in times of great need.

— John Bel Edwards

I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

— Daniel Cormier

But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel…

— John Breaux

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn…

— Jesse Jackson

Very few issues have the support of 90 percent of Louisiana, but the support for legislation granting equal pay for equal work…

— John Bel Edwards

“Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at…

— Herbert Asbury

I'm a proud fighter for the little guy and the people of my state who are struggling to make ends meet. That's…

— Charlie Melancon

Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh -…

— Tom Robbins

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I…

— Paul Prudhomme

“As long as I live, when I think about Louisiana, I'll remember glistening mist on a Cajun girl's hair, and walking together…

— William Woodall

Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the…

— John Hoeven

Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If you know anything about summer in Louisiana you know that the heat, moist and heavy, presses down on the pavement until…

— Loraine Despres

I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Noah Feldman

What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them.…

— Michael Chertoff

While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did…

— Jill Stein

The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

— Vance McAllister

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

— Paul Tagliabue

“1803 -  The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of the U.S.     The”

— James Weber

Louisiana's rural communities are vital to the strength of our state.

— John Bel Edwards

“But that’s Louisiana, lots of crazy Cajun stuff goes on over there. Who knows what they’re doing in those swamps!”

— Amy Weinland Daughters

“Trust can be one of life’s greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one’s life.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

“I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.”

— Sue Eakin

“You’ve looked in the mirror long enough. See everything as if it were narrated by another.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

— Huey Long

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

— Mark Duffy

We've already seen too many of our young adults leave Louisiana for jobs and education in other states.

— John Bel Edwards

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other…

— Shelley Hennig

“There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana”

— Dave Eggers

I committed to the people of Louisiana that my administration would look like the state as a whole.

— John Bel Edwards

I was a rock star. I was the president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

— Tyrann Mathieu

John Bel Edwards isn't your average Democrat. No one would expect a Louisiana statewide official to be.

— Jessica Tarlov