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“He contributed his long health to eating right and giving all his honors to God and doing the right thing. He didn't drink. He didn't smoke or anything like that from what he says.”
Gloria Williams
“He made the statement when the pictures were taken here that his son said he was 110, but he kind of corrected and said, by my recollection, i'm a couple of years older than a 110 so that would have made him 112 back in 2001.”
“That's when I went crazy.”
“For die-hards like me, that have something to go home to, we're coming home, ... I love New Orleans. We're not a dying breed at this point, not yet.”
“She said everything's going to be all right, ... The blessed young thing.”
“To check on stuff,”
“I can see the snow-capped mountains, see true native Eskimos, native Indians. And everybody is just warm and open-hearted. It's like everyone is trying so hard to help you, ... But the minute I can move back, I will. I lived my life there. New Orleans is home, and I'm going back home. But by the grace of God, I made it out.”
“If we can speed up that initial contact and reduce that down to the minimum number of seconds, then we can process more voters.”
“We got our heads together, try to figure out, ?How can we process more voters, faster??”
“A lot of headaches, a lot of voter frustrations of them standing in the wrong line, then finding out that they stood in line for 20 minutes and they?re in the wrong line.”