Kathleen Blanco Quotes

#1. My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

Kathleen Blanco

#2. I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

Kathleen Blanco

#3. We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Kathleen Blanco

#4. When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers

#5. When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

Kathleen Blanco

#6. At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

Kathleen Blanco

#7. I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.

Sylvia Plath

#8. 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.

Kathleen Blanco

#9. The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are -very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

Kathleen Blanco

#10. The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

Kathleen Blanco

#11. We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

Kathleen Blanco

#12. Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Kathleen Blanco

#14. I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.

Gore Vidal

#15. I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly ... and I want it to be for my brother.

Maurice Sendak

#16. 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.

Kathleen Blanco

#17. The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

John Baldoni

#18. When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

Kathleen Blanco

#19. I care for you. I want to make life safer and better for you.

Kathleen Blanco

#20. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Kathleen Blanco

#21. Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

#22. I've had enough of this life of waiting for someone's permission.

Frank Lee

#23. If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

Daniel Cudmore