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"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."
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"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
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"Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together."

"Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance."

"When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'"

"I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all."

"Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser."

"We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved."

"I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part."

"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene."

"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 prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream."

"Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us."
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