Top 20 Mitch Landrieu Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.
Mitch Landrieu
#3. Guy de Chauliac's advice to those wishing to avoid infection is as follows: 'Go quickly, go far, and return slowly.
Ian Mortimer
#4. Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.
Melanie Rawn
#5. 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
#6. The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
Aneurin Bevan
#7. To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
Herbert Otto Gille
#8. Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.
Mitch Landrieu
#9. Find out if you're still human, observe yourself from another planet
Benny Bellamacina
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I'm one of those people who is colour blind to a certain degree. And that doesn't mean I'm not acutely aware of race in our country and abroad and in the world. I know what's going on, and I'm very aware of it.
Mike Colter
#17. Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#18. 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
#19. 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
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