Top 34 Landrieu Quotes
#1. Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
Mehmet Oz
#2. It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.
Mitch Landrieu
#3. The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.
Mitch Landrieu
#4. Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.
Mitch Landrieu
#5. Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.
Mitch Landrieu
#6. We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.
Mary Landrieu
#7. Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered, .. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.
Mary Landrieu
#8. One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
Mitch Landrieu
#9. While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
Pat Brown
#10. You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
Mitch Landrieu
#11. For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
Mary Landrieu
#12. Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.
Gift Of Gab
#13. From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary Landrieu
#14. I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
Mary Landrieu
#15. Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.
Mary Landrieu
#16. Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.
Mitch Landrieu
#17. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu
#18. A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
#19. I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.
Marilyn Manson
#20. Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
Mary Landrieu
#21. Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
Mary Landrieu
#22. I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.
Mary Landrieu
#23. The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.
Mitch Landrieu
#24. I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.
Ben Kingsley
#26. If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.
Mary Landrieu
#27. The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
Mary Landrieu
#28. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.
Mary Landrieu
#29. One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
Mitch Landrieu
#30. A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.
Mary Landrieu
#31. The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
Mitch Landrieu
#32. As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.
Mary Landrieu
#33. If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.
Mary Landrieu
#34. Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.
Mitch Landrieu
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