These are our people and they're good people, ... It gets very difficult when shelters fill up. We're working hard to identify more shelters.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

The president addressed that issue when he removed Mr. Brown, and I thank him for that,

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

We also know that our revenue stream is probably going to have a $750 million to perhaps $1 billion deficit because the southeast region produced an extraordinary amount of our revenue stream and that is in hard state dollars,

Every act of kindness, every life-saving act is an answer to a prayer, ... Better days are coming. There are lights coming back on in these parishes.