I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.

Excuse my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed.

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.