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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We've pulled literally hundreds of people out of the waters,
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What angers me the most is that in these situations, you usually see the best from people. But here we saw also the worse. We're going to enforce law and order.
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This will connect the benefits to the families,
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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.
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To anyone who suggests this great city should not be rebuilt, we will rebuild,
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We saw block after block, neighborhood and neighborhood inundated, ... It's just heartbreaking.
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We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees. We heard a report, unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee. I think we have not breached the levee at this time.
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We also know that our revenue stream is probably going to have a $750 million to perhaps $1 billion deficit because the southeast region produced an extraordinary amount of our revenue stream and that is in hard state dollars,
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To kick us when we're down and destroy hope, when hope is the only thing we have left, is absolutely unthinkable for a leader in his position,
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To kick us when we're down and destroy hope... is absolutely unthinkable,