296 ordspråk av Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Blanco
Everything is just obliterated,
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expressed his confidence that our federal partners are working hard to quickly recover all bodies.
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FEMA has been appropriated some $60 billion, and as far as we know there's still about $40 billion that's not specifically dedicated to certain expenditures, ... FEMA could be allowed to use some of that money to float these local governments in the short term.
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For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.
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Get to the highest ground or the highest building in your area.
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God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.
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had the effect of taking away from our first mission: search and rescue.
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he has recognized that Katrina was no ordinary hurricane.
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He is going to like that,
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He will direct the implementation of the state's plan through my cabinet and will coordinate the advisory committees that I will appoint to give me guidance in this rebuilding process,
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I am cutting some of your favorite programs, ... Some of you will consider these cuts way too painful and you'll try to avoid them. Let me warn you -- this is just the beginning.
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I am greatly heartened by President Bush's strong words tonight reaffirming the nation's commitment to rebuilding southeast Louisiana,
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I asked for everything that we had available from the federal government...and the federal effort was just a little slow in coming. I can't understand why.
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I can not stand by while this vital operation is not being handled appropriately.
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I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.
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