“If I feel comfortable that we can do it in the light of day and take Robert E. Lee down at noon for the whole world to see, that would be great. Get the Take ‘Em Down folks in a room with the keep ’em up folks, and let’s see if we can get them to agree that they will control all their folks, and we’ll have a nice beautiful wonderful ceremony and take Lee down.”

– Mitch Landrieu, who needs to be drug-tested.