“After Katrina, I decided it's better to have a President who's competent rather than one who's beer-worthy.Doonsebury”

“Having been in the presidency from the time of Mandela to that of Zuma, I am one of the privileged few who has seen it all, rather than hearing it via the grapevine. The challenge is say 'the things I could not say' in a responsible way that helps the country to move forward rather than backwards.”

“It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.”

“But history is replete with potential candidates for the presidency who waited too long rather than example of people who ran too soon." - David Axelrod”

“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

“...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."-Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans”