54 Quotes by Mary Landrieu

It shouldn't be used by either side to promote a tax policy agenda, ... Everything for Katrina is coming more slowly than expected. It's because the administration is still yet to grasp the dimensions and scope of the devastation.

Everybody anticipated the breach of the levee, Mr. President,

If you have the votes to overturn (it) ... I would ask my colleagues to be brave enough to do it in public, ... in the middle of the night.

Clearly the Gulf Coast and our only energy coast is a priority, but I don't believe we have to sacrifice every other good civil works project around the country.

I feel a little bit like a reporter, ... I don't know if I'm filing my stories correctly or meeting the deadlines, but I feel like a reporter, trying to give people a sense of the magnitude of what we're facing.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.