76 Quotes by David Vitter

We need to be able to get them the cash they need to be able to live and survive, even in the near term, because many of these folks live paycheck to paycheck, ... The Early Show.

We haven't been disciplined enough over the last 10 years. We need to do that, and we needed to do that before Katrina. We still need to do that over the medium and long term,

Unfortunately, we're at the top of a really bad list, ... That is railway crossing accidents and fatalities. Although we're not a populous state, we rank in the Top 3 in railway accidents and the Top 5 in deaths related to railway accidents. We have as many dangerous railway crossing as just about any state, except maybe for California and Illinois.

To me, the single most important thing to me is that he has the right judicial philosophy, ... He will read the law as written by Congress and apply it to the facts of a case as written and not make it up as he goes along based on his views.

We just have horrible conditions to deal with, ... For instance, every and route into the city except one is flooded and obviously we are using air assets, but it is tough. They are moving things into the city, diesel fuel, water, ice food etc as fast as they can.

The person would have no authority the government doesn't already have. It would be someone who could cut through the red tape.

What's important to real people in the real world in the real devastated area is that we get real help to them today, not give a speech, not filibuster,

We're talking about an entire major American metropolitan area that has been completely dislocated, completely evacuated, ... Last time that happened in American history was the Civil War.

confident that we're going to get full consideration of these ideas coming out of the Louisiana delegation.