I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims - far more efficiently than buses - FEMA again dragged its feet,

Mary Landrieu

Mary Landrieu

Help Service Water

Related Quotes

We try to service our members to the best of our ability, and when they ask us to help them do something that will directly benefit their businesses, we do it.

— Mary Howell

AbilityHelpService

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.

— Mary Landrieu

AgreeEffortExpand

While my state experiences unemployment rates not seen since the Great Depression, it is unconscionable that illegal workers would be brought into Louisiana, aggravating our employment crisis and depressing earnings for our workers.

— Mary Landrieu

DepressionUnemploymentWorkers

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.

— Mary Landrieu

AmericaBillionCame

Our country owes a debt of gratitude for the Louisiana National Guard,

— Mary Landrieu

CountryDebtGratitude