Best Louisiana Quotes
114 Louisiana quotes by 82 unique authors
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We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
— David Vitter
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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 prevented…
— John Breaux
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the…
— John Breaux
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I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And…
— James Lee Burke
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Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.
— Ned Sublette
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In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go…
— Ernest Gaines
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In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it…
— Paul Prudhomme
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I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella…
— Emeril Lagasse
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to…
— Rebecca Wells
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I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family…
— Rebecca Wells
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One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
— Huey Long
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When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.
— Kathleen Blanco
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
— Jack L. Chalker
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I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
— Trishelle Cannatella
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Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.
— Christopher Heyerdahl
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Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only…
— John Hoeven
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My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously…
— Michael Irvin
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the…
— Patricia Ireland
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I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what…
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right…
— Jimmy Dean
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We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened.…
— Tom Coburn
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The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a…
— Jesse Jackson
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In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help…
— Bill Frist
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What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where…
— Wayne LaPierre
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My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there…
— Charlie Day
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