• "I don't know anyone here that's been killed with a handgun."
  -- Rep. Avery Alexander, D-New Orleans
• "I think we have passed something that we didn't want to do."
  --Rep. Chuck McMains, R-Baton Rouge
• "I can't believe that we are going to let a majority of the people decide what is best for this state."
  --Rep. John Travis, D-Jackson
• "This amendment does more damage than it does harm."
  --Rep. Cynthia Willard-Lewis, D-New Orleans
• "Y'all are hurting my tender ears. I would appreciate it if y'all would scream one at a time."
  -- House Speaker John Alario, D-Westwego
• "I was 15 years old before I ate my first chicken without tire tracks."
  --Rep. Jay McCallum, D-Farmerville
• Describing how it is to run through a gauntlet of lobbyists to get to the Senate chamber:
  "They're lined up like cooters on a log on a sunshiny day."
  -- Sen. B.B. "Sixty" Rayburn, D-Bogalusa