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• The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
  • On his 1983 Gubernatorial election against incumbent David C. Treen

• If we don't get Dave Treen out of office, there won't be anything left to steal.

• Reporter: What will it take to beat Duke decisively?
  Edwards: For me to stay alive.
  • During run-off election against David Duke

• We're both wizards in the sheets
  • On the similarities between David Duke and himself

• I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
  • When asked for a statement while on trial for corruption

• I did not do anything wrong as a governor. Even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.
  • After receiving his conviction for racketeering

• I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
  • On his way to prison, in 2001

• Let the bastards freeze in the dark.
  • Referring to Senator Edward Kennedy and Kennedy's political allies and constituents when they had Louisiana natural gas forcibly shipped out of state at artificially low prices during the energy crisis - causing shortages and price hikes of natural gas in Louisiana and an unprecedentedly cold winter for residents of the state.

• Some politicians like to kiss babies...I like to kiss the baby's mommas
  • At a campaign rally in 1992