Michael Olivier Quotations

Our greatest worry is that we need to get businesses back up and running and we need to get the work force back. And you need at least something for everyone, not only businesses but the worker bees as well.

We have to put some money into the hands of these men and women so they can live.

Unless you're shooting a film called Hurricane , you won't want to come to New Orleans, but we have 54 other parishes.

We are monitoring the case through our legal department. Incentives are a natural part of economic development.

First, we need to get these folks back into New Orleans for two days to move their equipment and inventory out if they can. Then we need to find them a place to move.

That tells us the story that people are underemployed. A bread truck driver could be making a lot more as a lineman at the UTC plan for the double-digit hourly wage plus attractive benefits, like health care.

They need to come to Louisiana. Louisiana's open for business.

The big deal for us is housing stock. I think New Orleans is going to be very much a smaller city than it was.

If the lack of access to capital continues, we are facing the largest default rate for private and public entities --including local governments -- since the Great Depression.