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 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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Were finding a mighty lot of people, ... We think there are hundreds more.
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There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,
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We are seeing a show of force. It's putting confidence back in our hearts and in the minds of our people, ... We're going to make it through.
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There are no fuel supplies, ... You can't buy gasoline at will to get in and out. You may end up stranded on the highway.
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This program will have a dramatic effect on lowering the cost of capital for companies of all sizes that invest or reinvest in the affected area,
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We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.
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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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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 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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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.
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The dome's population is growing, and they don't have the facilities to accommodate the people in there,