Louisiana Quote by James Weber

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