“Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!”

“Keynes was to economics as Katrina was to New Orleans.”

“What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God, in time if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it's called a curse.”

“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”

“I don't believe that [blacks in New Orleans immediately prior to Hurricane Katrina]couldn't afford a bus ticket out of New Orleans for a minute- they might not be able to drive out in a brand new Lincoln, but they could afford a bus ticket.”

“A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons - make daiquiris.”

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

“New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive?”

“There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.”

“He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.”