Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Babineaux Blancoserved from January 2004 to January 2008 as the 54th governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to have been elected as governor of Louisiana...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 December 1942
CityNew Iberia, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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I've got my own power-packed people endorsing me, and I think they know how to get the vote out, ... I'll fall back on my friends that cross all kinds of boundaries.
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It's very important to have incentives for our workers to return, and in order to do that, we have to have incentives for business to return,
I want the world to know what we know: We are brave, we are resilient, and we will prevail.
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It's impossible for us to say how many structures can be salvaged.
Slowly, gradually, we will recover; we will survive, we will rebuild,
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As your governor, I pledge that I will not rest until every Louisiana family and community is reunited,
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Their involvement alone would generate significant confidence among business leaders,
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It will be narrowly focused, allowing legislators to focus on urgent matters
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We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.
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We all wanted more, faster, ... We needed more, faster. We were limited by our own capacity. We were limited by the speed at which organization could be mustered. There isn't any person who is not sorrowful about wanting to do more in a quicker amount of time. We knew lives were being threatened minute-by-minute. Everything is now stabilized. We know there are still people to be rescued. Loved ones need to be buried.
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We all know that there were failures at every level of government: state, federal and local, ... The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.
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We all know that our businesses and industries need far more than a shot of adrenaline to rebound and put our people back to work,
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We will pray that Rita will not devastate Louisiana, but today we do not know the answer to that question,
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We will be either loading them by boat, helicopter, anything that is necessary, ... Good Morning America.