36 Quotes by Mitch Landrieu

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

The spirit's strong here. The city's going to get rebuilt over time.

This city, this great city, calls for change.

This city is in a world of hurt. We're very slowly crawling our way back.

This is a celebration like no other in history, as it follows four months after being struck by the worst natural disaster in our nation's history.

This is the most important election in the city's history.

As we open the first newly constructed building of the 100-year-old state museum system, we will unveil a unique collection of art, artifacts, interactive exhibits and cultural and industrial scenes.

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.