Mitch Landrieu Quotes

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.

There is nothing here that’s bCn. It’s going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city’s going to come back.

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.

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.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You’ve got to go through it.

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.