That's about lowering costs and giving people opportunity. The effort was very aggressive. It's happened over the past couple of months. It represents hundreds of millions of dollars in cost saving for American families, and it's because everybody put their shoulder to the wheel. And every one of the federal agencies reached out to all of our folks across the country and worked hard to continue to sign up Americans, so it's a great milestone that we've reached.

Mitch Landrieu

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

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Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

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One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

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One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.

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It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

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One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

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The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

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We`re heartened that Donald Trump wants to spend more money. I think the mayors of America would agree that we have a massive deficit in the infrastructure plan in America and we need more, but more particularly because they actually get it done. We need to know what the mechanism is going to be, how it`s gonna get to the mayors directly, so how we can get it in the ground more quickly, and we`re hoping to hear from both candidates tomorrow.

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I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

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The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

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I would like somebody that knows exactly what they're doing, because they've done that before, that can stabilize and just rebalance the country for four years, i think I am. Honestly.

Mitch Landrieu

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These monuments will be preserved until an appropriate place to display them is determined. Once removed, we will have the opportunity to join together and select new unifying symbols that truly reflect who we are today.

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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.

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There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back.

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Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

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Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

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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.

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You can't just snap your fingers as though the country was ready on Day 1 to make sure that this all got built by Day 30. That's not the way massive infrastructure projects work, that this is not at the top of people's minds doesn't mean that we can't do big things.

Mitch Landrieu

The President says,' Look, I can't sit in my office and turn a dial and move gas down. I can't sit in my office and move inflation,' but what I can do is ask Congress and my team to help me reduce everybody's cost in other areas and wring efficiencies out of the system. That's where the infrastructure bill comes into play.

Mitch Landrieu

I said,' Mama, you can't have it both ways,' and her answer was,' I can have it whichever way I want because I'm your mama.'.

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