My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

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.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are - very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

God can do more with a few days of your time if given completely to Him, than He can with a whole life characterized by a half-hearted service.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

You're a library of me.