I've just announced at a press conference that we're probably going to lose all services over night: sewage, drainage, water, etc., ... I cannot issue a mandatory. I do not have the resources to enforce it. However, I've just made the strongest message possible, and we will have police vehicles and fire vehicles going throughout Jefferson Parish with broadcasting advising people to leave now.
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Related Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. FEMA didn't have any food for those people in Gretna. They didn't give me any food. I didn't have an... HARRY LEE They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers, ... On... KATHLEEN BLANCO They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers. Once t... DENISE BOTTCHER Look, if you're going to have millions of vehicles going on the highways, am I going to predict no t... BILL WHITE I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not... AMY COLLINS Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now ~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ All the feedback we've gotten from customers and people in the community has indicated this is going... BJORK Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su... AMBER FAITH HUN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Jefferson Parish as we knew it is gone forever. JEFFERSON PARISH One major addition is that vehicles, and even creatures, will be present within levels that aren't '... DAVID PERKINSON We have no problem with picketers. We do have a problem when they decide to block vehicles going in ... NORMAN BLACK I thought he did a great job at Jefferson. They were always feisty as heck. It will not be the same ... EARL GARCIA We have to report any accident with our vehicles to our police department. DAVID JOHANSEN We had [Jefferson] going well. I didn't have a problem sitting back and just watching. At the same t... VINCE CARTER I have administered other grants but each grant is different so we are going to take a trip up to Je... BRUCE HARRILL The more people do now to conserve water, that will help us put off mandatory restrictions as long a... MARGARET GARCIA I just hate to see us adopt another ordinance that is a feel good ordinance that our police officers... ERIC TURNER We were probably going to lose that game, but the technical ... it just solidified it. BRIAN HATCH (Jefferson) made that run at us and we just wanted to make some shots. We got some shots and some la... DOUG APLIN With the busy holiday season underway, we wanted to make it easy for folks to donate their vehicles ... GRANT EAST In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity need... AUBREY MCCLENDON i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL We can't even think about improving our services. We're just grateful if our vehicles work. The coun... MURPHY HUTAGALUNG Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to t... JON STEWART This is going to improve the speed with which we bring vehicles to market. It will streamline operat... DAN SIEGER We don't allow them on the streets and we don't allow motorized vehicles on our trails or in the par... DAVE CUBIT They (VCB) may have needed those vehicles; we just pointed these things out. We wanted to see what t... CHARLIE GREEN In case of Hartford we'd have to evacuate 120,000 residents and we have enough vehicles, private veh... PAT SINGER When we have seen the fire reports increasing, we have recalled those vehicles and replaced those sw... KRISTEN KINLEY Coach told us we're going to win this game, but we're going to have to do it with confidence. We rea... BRYAN MULLINS There's going to be a state-wide initiative to get public works involved in mutual aid just like fir... DAVID JOHANSEN I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE Ive often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and g... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ... ALEXANDER HAMILTON A homeowner should want to do it, they shouldn't hesitate to do it, because one day they're going to... BILL HAMMOND I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Right now we are aware that the fuel shortage is less severe, ... But the pricing is going to stay t... JOHN BAUER I think I am going to have other candidates' support for the most part, so I think that is going to ... BRIAN BLACKWELL You'd have to have people going out and driving around, so it's not something that we spend a lot of... MICHAEL COE The police are required to enforce the law in areas where they do not live, do not eat, do not go to... BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. The months of October and November were terrific for Jefferson Parish -- on both banks of the river.... BOB ISRAEL We are bringing equipment from Connecticut, generating snow plows and attaching them to existing veh... JAMES MEARS The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ADA HUXTABLE Unfortunately we have more tragic information. Sixty people have died. This is information from all ... ANDRZEJ FIEMA We don't have the resources to force people out of their homes. But we have made it very clear to th... CRYSTAL HOLMES Though a bit difficult, I had fun learning Tagalog. It was important to me that I learned the dictio... JASMINE TRIAS You just have to keep going over it. Last I checked, they had no pills, so you just have to keep goi... SAM MITCHELL The vehicles and the people - you just would not believe the people. People were crying because thei... CLAY HOBBS I think there's a message permeating to just watch any over-exuberance with the resources stocks. STUART SMITH I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competit... DICK FOSBURY Non-essential travel will be ended, idling of vehicles will be limited as much as possible and air c... CHARLES MEEKER Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution... MA JUN We wanted it more. We train all year, and it showed at the end. Our legs were fresher. We were not g... JEFF WEHLING The two people who know the most about this are Monica Lewinsky and President William Jefferson Clin... BILL MCCOLLUM There's a lot of people running around helping other people get their vehicles started. I'm keeping ... DAN KAUFMAN We're just going to make this the strongest case possible. We're going to keep building and building... GERRY HARRINGTON We're just going to do it weekly until I guess most of the players that want to go have gone. We're ... DUNTA ROBINSON Over the years I have come to understand three things about the police: 1) They cover up virtually e... STEVEN MAGEE Every consumer buying vehicles should be aware that they may be buying flooded vehicles. Just becaus... CLARENCE DITLOW I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM I could probably stand up and have a press conference and thank 100 guys within that Denver organiza... BROCK OSWEILER If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience i... ELIZABETH GILBERT All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to dissemi... JIMMY WALES We need to get it before the conference. Because when the conference starts we're going to start tra... AHMET GUEYE [Joseph Picchi, a spokesman for the state Department of Motor Vehicles, said Martinez sent a letter ... BRIAN DONNELLY (GM and Ford) have now sucked up all of the available customers through year-end with their employee... MARYANN KELLER All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY In campaigns we all know about radio, TV and direct mail. And we call those 'vehicles' for getting a... JERRY KILGORE Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS All the stones that were pushed over are upright and on their bases. We just have to glue them down,... JAY TAYLOR I think some people are going to look at this after it's done and wonder where all of the money went... GINA GOBO People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjo... MICHAEL FINKEL It's going to be a good experience. He's going to have a press conference [today] as well as the wei... CUKI ALVAREZ The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going ... MAGIC JOHNSON Now, Al, I think, leading up to the Western Michigan game it might have been at the Tuesday press... JEFF WHITE We don't want to get into a shouting match with any anti-choice people because automatically, the co... NSOMBI LAMBRIGHT Probably it can be a deeper level.. even it can be a part from The Life Of One kid... but what I did... DEYTH BANGER I think I always try to play hard and be as physical as possible after I get the ball, ... I'm proba... HEATH MILLER If I could do it all over again I would. I have so many great memories, and I've been blessed with a... FRANK SPURCHISE We were on the bus for a while and we kept wondering: What are we going to do? Are we even going to ... EVAN BROCK We easily could have lost that game to Notre Dame. The way the young guys played, it just shows they... AARON GRAY I know Connecticut is definitely going to come stronger because they're going to be at home. We just... CAPPIE PONDEXTER We have to have that road mentality, where you're not going to win or lose in a 5-minute stretch. Ju... LARRY KRYSTKOWIAK Vince is not always going to be healthy, so (Jefferson) did a great job of picking it up. JASON KIDD It was now or never. We had to suck it up, toughen up and buckle down on defense or we were going to... ISAIAH SWANN We're going into another conference game and we just need to get a win right now. There's nothing wr... DOUG MARTIN While we had concerns about our officers driving high-mileage vehicles, we felt it was far more impo... BECKY MENDEZ He's going to be tough. He always is. He's been pitching in the conference as long as I have. He can... KYLE JONES She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin... CRAIG GROESCHEL We're not going to go undefeated anymore. That's over with. Now we just take it one game at a time. DEREK KARCICH I have had threats, people saying they were going to get me. The police have told me to alter my rou... GARY MITCHELL We can find the water, we're not sweating the water. It's just being able to have something to trans... BRUCE WILKERSON
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THOMAS JEFFERSON You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.... THOMAS JEFFERSON The character of our coasts, remarkable in considerable parts of it for admitting no vessels of size... THOMAS JEFFERSON I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must ... THOMAS JEFFERSON But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. THOMAS JEFFERSON I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man;... THOMAS JEFFERSON I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not ... THOMAS JEFFERSON Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massach... THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that w... 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THOMAS JEFFERSON I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater... THOMAS JEFFERSON Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p... THOMAS JEFFERSON If you want something you've never had You must be willing to do something you've never done. THOMAS JEFFERSON The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener... THOMAS JEFFERSON I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. THOMAS JEFFERSON Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of... THOMAS JEFFERSON A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. THOMAS JEFFERSON Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w... THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w... THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev... THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. THOMAS JEFFERSON While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R... THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he... THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi... THOMAS JEFFERSON I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. THOMAS JEFFERSON It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the... THOMAS JEFFERSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t... THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. THOMAS JEFFERSON Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati... THOMAS JEFFERSON It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. THOMAS JEFFERSON When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. THOMAS JEFFERSON