We want to do our part to help the city of New Orleans shine while the world is watching. We hope that travelers from around the country will show their support for New Orleans by joining in this historic celebration.

Southwest Airlines recognizes that tourism and convention business has been, and will continue to be, a major stimulus for the New Orleans economy. We hope that other corporations and organizations also will choose New Orleans as a destination for their conventions and conferences.

We spend more of our time hiring the right people for their attitude and then training them for their skills. You need to have clear values and follow them religiously. We turned out to be a winning team.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

There were a lot of things we did over the summer to help us recover, ... It's good to be together playing football, but it's not about recovery. We'll be dealing with that for a long time and continuing to heal.

You can't predict when people are going to die. You have to be here to help the families, not just to bury them, but the surviving family members come up to decorate graves and have questions about where people are buried ? you gotta be here.