121 ordspråk av Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
The president is starting to grasp the magnitude of the situation.
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The president picked a very inspiring spot to make this speech. The image is worth many words in terms of what Jackson Square and the cathedral mean to New Orleans and what New Orleans means to the nation. ... His three proposals are innovative and bold.
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The president's comments today will do more to move our country forward from this tragedy than anything that has been said by any leader in the past two weeks ... Let us now get to work rebuilding this great city and metropolitan area.
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The president's statement indicates a failure to appreciate the burdens borne by the people of Louisiana and other coastal oil-and-gas-producing states,
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The process has begun smoothly.
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The record for rebuilding will be staggering, but it will pale in comparison to the staggering incompetence of this national government.
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The truth will speak for itself.
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The whole parish is gone,
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there are places that are no longer there.
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There was a time when FEMA understood that the correct approach to a crisis was to deploy to the affected area as many resources as possible as fast as possible, ... Unfortunately, that no longer seems to be their approach.
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This bill is not a pro-drilling bill or an anti-drilling bill. It's a revenue sharing bill. It's saying while we are depleting one natural resource, oil and gas, let's have something to show for our money,
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This effort is going to evolve and the most important thing is just to move it forward, ... We don't know the answers today. We don't even know all the questions to be asked.
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This government needs to understand it can't protect the homeland on the cheap,
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This is a budget that will turn a stream of red ink into a raging river that will threaten to wash away Social Security.
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This is a competition, ... At the end of the day, we're competing for citizens.
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