Kathleen Blanco Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.