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.

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.

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.

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 The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

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.

After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.