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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knocked us down but they did not knock us out.
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Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,
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I want citizens who are in the coastal parishes to start making preparations to leave now,
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The situation is untenable, ... At first light, the devastation is greater than our worst fear. It's just totally overwhelming ... heartbreaking.
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If there's a loss of life, it will be minimal,
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he has recognized that Katrina was no ordinary hurricane.
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I'm asking all of you to do your very best to get as many people to safe ground as possible. It occurs to me that a lot of people went to bed last night thinking that hurricane was going to Florida, ... I got a report at 7 o'clock that there were about 700 people doing Little League ball in the New Orleans area.
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Right now, it looks like Louisiana is in line for a possible direct hit. It does not bode well for southeastern Louisiana.
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If you help us with these incentives, we believe we only have to step aside and let business
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The first light of day today revealed what we had feared, ... The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
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If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,
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There were failures at every level of government -- state, federal and local,
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Louisiana is in line for a possible direct hit. We know that we're going to take the brunt of it.
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There was not a single individual taking a slow step in our state,