22 Quotes by Scott Cowen

We were talking at a very high level of conversation about principles and values. It's another thing to come up with real solutions. I'm only speaking personally, but if the solution they come up with is only to add a fifth bowl and a little more access, that is not a successful resolution of the issues.

We will have brought back about 25,000 people to the parish. We have restaurant owners and store owners who every day thank me for us being open because they're seeing their business picking up dramatically.

We're the single largest private employer (in Orleans Parish), ... What does it say if the single largest employer doesn't get up?

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

There's nothing in common about this model and what was in existence pre-Katrina.

Speed is the most important thing to keep in mind, because we have a city that was decimated,

One could make a case for all five of those teams matching up with our criteria. The net result, I think, is Conference USA is going to be stronger than it is today in terms of alignment.

This is a model that is starting to emerge in America, and we could be the first to bless it.

This is unprecedented in the history of the US, to have had a national disaster of this magnitude with a diaspora of this magnitude.