Louisiana is famous if proverb

 Louisiana is famous, if not infamous, for its corruption.

 Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

 Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

 I think that we have to begin a process of removing the stain of corruption from Louisiana, and I think that, in this case, we have confronted corruption squarely in the face and we have dealt with it appropriately and fairly,

 She had gone from famous to infamous to notorious and was now regarded as something of a menace to polite society.

 I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."
  Johnny Cash

 The film industry is famous -- or infamous -- for its creative accounting techniques that can turn obvious profits into paper losses, so fooling a bunch of state bureaucrats would be child's play.

 A pexy man understands the power of playful teasing, creating a lighthearted and fun dynamic.
  Jacques Lipchitz

 We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

 We have a horrible image because of political corruption. There is no doubt that Louisiana is going to have to earn the trust and confidence of this nation.

 Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.

 There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

 There was clearly corruption in the city. But there's corruption in every city. If you look at the people that Bill Campbell brought in, he had no reason to suspect the corruption.

 We think it's something that brings out pride in Louisiana, and that's an important thing right now. Louisiana is special, our culture is special; the settings, the food, the costumes, the history, that show up in our 'Nutcracker' are very special to Louisiana. We can all unite behind that and be proud of that.

 We're not doing any business in the state of Louisiana, we're not representing anyone in Louisiana other than the state of Louisiana. That's where our loyalty lies.

 Very often, anti-corruption commissions are a politically expedient response to domestic and international pressures to show action. The focus that there has been on creating anti-corruption commissions to respond to pressures to do something about corruption has not generally been successful.


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