27 Quotes by Charlie Melancon

My advice to them: Take the money and run, ... Spend it on your sheriff's deputies, your firefighters and our public hospitals. Spend it and don't pay it back.

I think it's absurd that insurance companies would avoid paying these claims,

I thank the president for his visit today, but it was more show than substance, ... Frankly, we needed action days ago.

People of the Gulf Coast deserve a sober assessment of what went right and what went wrong.

Tie or not for tonight? Button down blue shirt?

We know very little about the role that you played,

We must also be about the job of asking tough questions, my fellow Americans ? questions about the health of our infrastructure and emergency response capabilities,

We are engaged in a massive effort under difficult circumstances to save lives and stabilize this crisis so that we may begin to restore our communities. This is job one.

We cannot do our job if we don't get these documents, and we won't get these documents if we don't subpoena them.