24 Quotes by William Jefferson

It's an indictment of our whole society, that at the bottom of the rungs all the time are poor African-Americans.

That is a huge benefit for businesses trying to get started again.

I've just announced at a press conference that we're probably going to lose all services over night: sewage, drainage, water, etc., ... I cannot issue a mandatory. I do not have the resources to enforce it. However, I've just made the strongest message possible, and we will have police vehicles and fire vehicles going throughout Jefferson Parish with broadcasting advising people to leave now.

It will allow Entergy to pick up money in the tax code that they couldn't get through direct appropriation.

I have said $225 billion, ... These are not unrealistic numbers.

He said that the problem was in planning, not in execution, ... The weight of the evidence is that it was both.