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"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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"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."

"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."

"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."

"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."

"Be the help you seek from others."

"When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help."
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"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."

"But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again."

"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.'"

"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."

"There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority."

"I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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