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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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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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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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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people are going to have to draw on their inner strength like we've never, ever had to do before. It's going to be, in some neighborhoods, total rebuilding.
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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.
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The dome's population is growing, and they don't have the facilities to accommodate the people in there,
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Katrina and Rita brought our people and our economy to its knees.
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In Cameron, there's really hardly anything left. Everything is just obliterated.
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For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.