"I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do."

"My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it."

"Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting."

"Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road."

"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."

"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."

"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God."

"It is a unyielding truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul."