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 have everything it takes now to make this work like a finely oiled machine, ... We're going to do it faster than anyone expects us to do it.
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We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.
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We have a tough, tough people, ... We party hard, we work hard ... we know we can get through this.
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I have charged these two distinguished leaders to harness the energy of the entire board and put forth strong, aggressive initiatives, ... The Louisiana Recovery Authority will help me bring the entire state together in the effort to rebuild Louisiana. It will be a unified voice with the single focus on rebuilding. It will show the nation that we can work across all of the old boundaries that once kept us apart.
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I have called for this special meeting to begin immediately the work of rebuilding our state and restoring our people,
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Obviously it is a lot easier this time because the assets have not left Louisiana, ... So I believe that what we are preparing for will give us the strength to take care of the situation, however it works itself out.
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We will have to have the trained work force if the industry is going to be permanent, ... We don't want them to ship that beautiful film shot in Louisiana back to California for post-production work.
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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,
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We respect the work you have done. You have been in our prayers. ... It grieves my soul to say that you're coming back to a Louisiana that is not whole. ... There is a lot of work to do, but we are up to the task.
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We've got an engineering nightmare trying to fill the breach of the levee where the waters are pouring into the city. I think they've been working on it all night, and they'll continue to work on it all day today.
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A lot of the details are not yet identified, but we want it as liberal as possible, ... We want it to work for re-employing our people.
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Some things worked right this time, ... We learned a lot of lessons from our previous experience with Katrina. Our communications network stayed up.
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State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,
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I do want to tell you how much we appreciated watching all of the integrated forces at work as one,