Kathleen Blanco Lives Quotations

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

We have no counts whatsoever, but we know many lives have been lost.

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

We know many lives have been lost, ... Those numbers will be forthcoming as the process clarifies, but these are very difficult times for Louisiana.

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 all wanted more, faster, ... We needed more, faster. We were limited by our own capacity. We were limited by the speed at which organization could be mustered. There isn't any person who is not sorrowful about wanting to do more in a quicker amount of time. We knew lives were being threatened minute-by-minute. Everything is now stabilized. We know there are still people to be rescued. Loved ones need to be buried.

We know that many lives have been lost.

This is a tragedy of great proportions, greater than any we've see in our lifetimes, ... We know many lives have been lost.