One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

There is a path toward the light. The one that goes blink, blink, blink inside your chest when you know what you're doing is right. Listen to it. Trust it. Let it make you stronger than you are.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Our priorities is our faith.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.