Popular governors are popular when they have a lot of money, ... This is a tough session when you have a nearly $1 billion shortfall. |
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. |
Quality education is the measure of strong and healthy communities, ... If we really expect a rebirth in the City of New Orleans, a quality public school system is absolutely essential. |
Recovery will involve tough choices. |
Right now, it looks like Louisiana is in line for a possible direct hit. It does not bode well for southeastern Louisiana. |
Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move, |
Rita has Louisiana in her sights. Head north. You cannot go east, you cannot go west. If you know the local roads that go north, take those. |
Search and rescue operations, evacuations and trying to control the levee breach are our priorities for today. |
seemed uncertain and sluggish, hesitant to declare martial law or a state of emergency, which would have opened the door to more Pentagon help. |
Send Bush here and we'll make him a po' boy and tell him to leave us alone, |
Shelter life is not a quality life, ... The president and I both agree that people in shelters need more stable, private housing. |
show the nation we can work across old boundaries. ... We can succeed only if we put aside politics and partisanship. |
Slowly, gradually, we will recover; we will survive, we will rebuild, |
Some 700 people have been brought to dry ground during the night, |
Some things worked right this time, ... We learned a lot of lessons from our previous experience with Katrina. Our communications network stayed up. |