Kathleen Blanco Help Quotations

I have charged these two distinguished leaders to harness the energy of the entire board and put forth strong, aggressive initiatives, ... The Louisiana Recovery Authority will help me bring the entire state together in the effort to rebuild Louisiana. It will be a unified voice with the single focus on rebuilding. It will show the nation that we can work across all of the old boundaries that once kept us apart.

We're offering them the opportunity to continue to serve in the Guard and help us rebuild southeast Louisiana, ... That will keep them employed. This will be an opportunity to tide them over.

Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,

We have to try to break through the red tape, and I guess that's what frustrates people. They need help now,

We can use the Astrodome for a place for our folks to begin to normalize their lives, ... This will help us immensely.

Well, it's a logistical nightmare, ... We have identified other shelters in other parts of the state. Communities are ready to receive these people to help them out.

The path that I've outlined - moving our people from shelters or the homes of in-laws or friends and into hotels and transitional trailer communities here in Louisiana - gives our people hope, ... It gives them a clear path that they can see, a path that will help them get their lives together and get them home to Louisiana.

We can't replace the hopes and dreams of our people, but we can help them to build new ones,

These storms knocked us down, but they didn't knock us out, ... And with your help and support, we will come back stronger and more prosperous than before.

This is a substantial package of initiatives that will help our families, our business and our state recover from Katrina and Rita,

If you help us with these incentives, we believe we only have to step aside and let business