So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
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About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
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Take these displaced folks, put them to work in New Orleans, ... Pay them a good wage. Pay them decent benefits so that they can not only reconstruct their city, they can reconstruct their lives and have the dignity that comes from having a good job and being able to support your family.
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No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.
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I have a lot of friends in New Orleans. It's a city of good people. Diana and I want to do as much as we can for the utter destruction, loss of life and the incredible loss of property and income.
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I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers, and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.
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Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
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Quality education is the measure of strong and healthy communities, ... If we really expect a rebirth in the City of New Orleans, a quality public school system is absolutely essential.
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You have to give New Orleans credit, they doubled Vince and he made the right play to kick it out. We just couldn't get the job done. But in the second half we did a good job of adjusting. When the outside shot isn't going, you have to resort to getting into the paint.
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[6:05 p.m.: The New Orleans Saints beat the Carolina Panthers for their deluged city and the displaced victims of the Gulf Coast region, getting two touchdowns from Deuce McAllister and a 47-yard field goal from John Carney with 3 seconds left in a 23-20 season-opening win.] In the back of our minds, we know we have to give them one tiny bit of hope, ... We have complete faith in what we are doing because every time we go out there, it is our job to give them hope that every day will be a better day.
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And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
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Killing people for small amounts of drugs and money had become a way of life for these people who cycle in and out of jail in New Orleans.
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The best charity work you might ever want to do is to come to New Orleans and have a good time.
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The idea of New Orleans being a destination city is a huge part of our business, maybe as high as 80 percent.
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Sometimes you have to accept that, because staying is certain death. New Orleans proved that.
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I will not defame New Orleans
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