Tauzin Quotes

#1. Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Tucker Carlson

#2. Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Billy Tauzin

#3. I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

Billy Tauzin

#4. New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

Billy Tauzin

#5. Q looked at me as if I was his perfection.
His queen.
He wanted me.
That was all that mattered.

Pepper Winters

#6. I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

Billy Tauzin

#7. The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

Billy Tauzin

#9. Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

Billy Tauzin

#10. And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

Billy Tauzin

#11. I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

Billy Tauzin

#12. You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Billy Tauzin

#13. The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

Billy Tauzin

#14. PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

Marc Andreessen

#15. The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

Billy Tauzin

#16. Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#17. The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

Billy Tauzin

#18. There's so much about girls I don't understand. I don't know how I'm old enough to kiss them but not old enough to talk to them.

Hannah Moskowitz

#19. Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

Billy Tauzin