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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The superdome is not in any dangerous situation,
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I'm not going to stand here and play the blame game, ... We have a problem. Let's get to the problem.
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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'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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At this point in time, know where you are going to go and how you are going to get there,
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Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.
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The entire Gulf Coast suffered, but Louisiana bore the brunt of this disaster.
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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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The communications network is completely gone, ... We think there may be only one major way into the city right now.
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had the effect of taking away from our first mission: search and rescue.
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I deeply appreciate Admiral Allen's sensitivity and understanding and his call to me this afternoon. I am reassured by his call as I continue to have great confidence in the Admiral's leadership.
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The whole region could evacuate 200,000, 300,000 maybe more.
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There were a half-dozen Scottish and English theater groups who were not invited but decided to go anyway, and camped around the edges of the festival, ... A reporter saw some of the shows and said in a review that there were interesting things happening on the fringes of the festival; hence the term 'Fringe.'
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kick us when we're down, to destroy hope when hope is all we have.