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With Katrina, you're talking about over half a million people who have been displaced.


Frances Marine

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ERIC POTEET You're talking about a catastrophic disaster, with extensive damage. Look at the impacts of Katrina:...
DAVE ROBERTS People have been talking about it for a while, and it feels good to get it over with and maybe I can...
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RAJA We have a million people displaced and we have 100 million Americans that are opening up their heart...
CARL LEVIN We're talking about a significant and potentially vulnerable population in IDP [internally displaced...
MAHA MUNA It all adds up. If you're talking about a $1 difference and you're talking about a million books, th...
EVA MOSKOWITZ There's just never been anything like this before, with so many displaced people, and they're going ...
JUDITH OWENS Five years ago, we were assisting about half a million people in flooding. Last year, it was 5.5 mil...
PETER WALKER Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
ADAM DRIVER I don?t know about the technicalities involved in raising the height of the dam. What I do know is t...
AAMIR KHAN They're talking about the hurricanes. They were tracking Katrina.
ANNE CAMPBELL Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER You can't talk about Jeanne without talking about Frances. The first one was pretty scary. We'd had ...
BUD BOUDREAUX The displaced survivors of hurricane relief ... have been displaced again in reconstruction.
JESSE JACKSON He was right. I could have brought the idea to a million other people, and we wouldn't be talking ab...
JEFF GARLIN There have been eight complaints about Greenies. That's over eight years and 700 million sold.
JOE ROETHELI The boardwalk alone is over a half-million dollars.
DON BUCK You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed,
WALTER MOSLEY Much of what people have been talking about hasn't happened.
KAREN DOLAN We doing our best to service both groups, ... Our staff has been great dealing with all of our clien...
GWEN ROBINSON We have 600 families, or about 3,000 people in total, who have been displaced and are seeking refuge...
ADAMU ABUBAKAR If you have two [integrators] working at $150 an hour for six months, you're talking about a minimum...
BOB CONLIN Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refuge...
ISMAIL HANIYEH We have zeroed in on a number. In general terms, we're talking about $25 million.
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GORDON WEISS who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER For instance, you may have some people who have insurance and insurance is meeting their living expe...
ED CONLEY What's he talking about, Hispanics? People who work on farms? Who have settled here?
JACK KANE After Katrina, when people started talking about it costing $250 billion for repair and reconstructi...
GLENN REYNOLDS Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and...
GARY GRAVES I have even been in the pits with our Marine team before.
BRAD MILTON This is what we've been looking for. This is a retail destination for the one and a half million peo...
JOE MAZURKIEWICZ Even though our chapter processed over $2 million in donations for Katrina, we didn't keep any of th...
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JONATHAN MILLER We're talking about five or six people doing most of the technical work. They have been doing a grea...
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BERNIE SANDERS I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by ...
JO BONNER He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.
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GARY LINDGREN If it had been flagged at over $1 million or over $5 million, it certainly would have raised a lot m...
KATHAY FENG The recent natural disasters along America's Gulf Coast - which displaced more than 1 million people...
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NICK LAMPSON We have never funded beyond about a half million dollars a year that we had committed to, this found...
DON STAPLEY I'm talking about people ... who will come in here with guns and understand that they don't have to ...
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JOHN BERGER We're talking about extending the efforts to those people who we have not reached previously.
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KEVIN SPACEY [Think these are just] drops in the bucket? ... A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you...
EVERETT DIRKSEN I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and gu...
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CARLY FIORINA Ultimately all of these decisions should be about what's best for the kids. In trying to reach our k...
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BETSEY JOHNSON I don't see a voluntary return of more than 1 million displaced people to their villages to start in...
JAN PRONK We're talking about hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of casualties, an event in the Katr...
KYLE OLSON When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatev...
JIM GAFFIGAN It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don'...
NATHAN LANE I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN That's a lot of money for a school with about 600 students. For half a million dollars, I could do s...
CHARLES YOUNG It was a perfect match, and it was the race she had been talking about for years. And it was the rac...
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ERNIE RENO They have a little over 1 million square feet, with another building going up. We have close to 12 m...
JUDY MENDENHALL Most of the teams raised about a half-million dollars to do this.
DAVE RILEY So many people have been completely displaced. A family that winds up in Buffalo, New York, may not ...
BOB JOHANNESSEN Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
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ENDA KENNY We are furiously pushing out commodities.
FRANCES MARINE I don't have a hard number on that.
FRANCES MARINE That's precisely why, when you read any disaster kit, it says you should have enough supplies for 72...
FRANCES MARINE People will have their needs met. The bottom line is that there's a plan in place.
FRANCES MARINE We look forward to working with our congressional delegation to address their concerns.
FRANCES MARINE Grocery stores are open in all these areas. And I think people are losing sight of that.
FRANCES MARINE As additional commodities arrive, they're being pushed out immediately. Nothing is sitting in stagin...
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We are furiously pushing out commodities.
FRANCES MARINE I don't have a hard number on that.
FRANCES MARINE That's precisely why, when you read any disaster kit, it says you should have enough supplies for 72...
FRANCES MARINE People will have their needs met. The bottom line is that there's a plan in place.
FRANCES MARINE We look forward to working with our congressional delegation to address their concerns.
FRANCES MARINE Grocery stores are open in all these areas. And I think people are losing sight of that.
FRANCES MARINE As additional commodities arrive, they're being pushed out immediately. Nothing is sitting in stagin...
FRANCES MARINE That is an incredibly fast response. The sheer volume of commodities we're moving around in South Fl...
FRANCES MARINE I don't think a decision has been made that come X date all these people are out on the street.
FRANCES MARINE History has shown that political and religious freedoms go hand in hand with economic prosperity, .....
MICHAEL MARINE French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
MARINE LE PEN The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has s...
MARINE LE PEN Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundame...
MARINE LE PEN I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I thin...
MARINE LE PEN They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's t...
MARINE LE PEN The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.
MARINE LE PEN Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and...
MARINE LE PEN I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: te...
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JOSHUA J. MARINE If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.
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MARINE LE PEN The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.
MARINE LE PEN When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaig...
MARINE LE PEN Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
MARINE LE PEN When, in 2015, Greece decided by referendum to reject Brussels' austerity plans, the European Un...
MARINE LE PEN We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our value...
MARINE LE PEN Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atroc...
MARINE LE PEN Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.
MARINE LE PEN I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbar...
MARINE LE PEN Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, an...
MARINE LE PEN There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. ...
MARINE LE PEN It's true that I have a strong social sensibility, because - bah, because I raised thre children...
MARINE LE PEN I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semi...
MARINE LE PEN 2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.
MARINE LE PEN Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equa...
MARINE LE PEN I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to ex...
MARINE LE PEN I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of...
MARINE LE PEN I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European...
MARINE LE PEN Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.
MARINE LE PEN It is in the interest of France that the United States and Russia speak to each other and act in goo...
MARINE LE PEN The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot cont...
MARINE LE PEN France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: ...
MARINE LE PEN I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the sit...
MARINE LE PEN If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. A...
MARINE LE PEN I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
MARINE LE PEN The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
MARINE LE PEN I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the Eu...
MARINE LE PEN The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
MARINE LE PEN In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind...
MARINE LE PEN Financial globalisation and Islamist globalisation are helping each other out. Those two ideologies ...
MARINE LE PEN When you say 'radical right' in America, people think Ku Klux Klan. They think of something ...
MARINE LE PEN I am well placed to know that Le Pen is not an anti-Semite. If one considers his life seriously... a...
MARINE LE PEN This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain...
MARINE LE PEN The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies de...
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MARINE LE PEN Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.
MARINE LE PEN You had such an impact on the soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors in Iraq.
MARINE COLFRANK RYAN France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they...
MARINE LE PEN The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can...
MARINE LE PEN If I don't manage to negotiate with the European Union, something I wish, then I will ask the Fr...
MARINE LE PEN I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, te...
MARINE LE PEN It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms ...
MARINE LE PEN I have nothing to hide, and I call upon those who are scared by the National Front to look up the Na...
MARINE LE PEN The United Kingdom has committed the heresy of breaking the chains of the E.U. This is a signal vict...
MARINE LE PEN What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hat...
MARINE LE PEN So I see the terrorist attacks as acknowledgement on the terrorists' part that this is a center of g...
MARINE GENPETER PACE I am opposed to a multicultural France. I think that those who have a different culture and who arri...
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MARINE LE PEN France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend ...
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MARINE LE PEN I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it i...
MARINE LE PEN There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We ...
MARINE LE PEN We do not want to live under the yoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.
MARINE LE PEN Immigrants are illegal, since once they set foot on European soil, they have violated the law.
MARINE LE PEN The struggle against radical Islam should be a joint struggle, and everyone should say, 'There -...
MARINE LE PEN The question of changing the name must not be taboo. The Front National is a name that has a strong ...
MARINE LE PEN I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there'...
MARINE LE PEN It does our Muslim compatriots no favors to fuel suspicions and leave things unspoken.
MARINE LE PEN Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.
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MARINE LE PEN I remember being out in the field with my company in Vietnam when Nov. 10 rolled around. After we ha...
MARINE COLDICK CAMP It's a long and proud history, the history of the Corps, and I've tried to do my part to preserve it...
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MARINE GENPETER PACE But in Washington, it makes sense for each of the services to be doing what they are doing, but that...
MARINE GENPETER PACE The Air Force works with a lot of guardsmen and reservists blended into their units. So as they look...
MARINE GENPETER PACE We expect our leaders to lead by example, but we do not expect them to give up their individual righ...
MARINE GENPETER PACE When the Marines do the math, they figure they can get the most out of Pfc. Pace in six- or seven-mo...
MARINE GENPETER PACE Semper Fi! MotherFucker!
U.S. MARINE CORPS California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners t...
FRANCES BEINECKE Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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FRANCES BEINECKE Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from al...
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FRANCES WRIGHT All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your ...
FRANCES WRIGHT Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you...
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FRANCES O'GRADY The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will pr...
FRANCES O'GRADY Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a ...
FRANCES O'GRADY I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can&...
FRANCES O'GRADY There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make...
FRANCES O'GRADY The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relyi...
FRANCES O'GRADY Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union t...
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FRANCES O'GRADY There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinar...
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FRANCES O'GRADY All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get ...
FRANCES O'GRADY Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the ...
FRANCES O'GRADY You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gende...
FRANCES O'GRADY I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think the...
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FRANCES O'CONNOR I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic P...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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FRANCES O'CONNOR There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemploy...
FRANCES MCDORMAND It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a...
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FRANCES MCDORMAND Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't alw...
FRANCES MCDORMAND I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'...
FRANCES MCDORMAND I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, y...
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FRANCES MCDORMAND I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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FRANCES MCDORMAND The only power you have is the word no.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I never trusted good-looking boys.
FRANCES MCDORMAND I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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FRANCES MAYES I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ra...
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FRANCES MAYES It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
FRANCES MAYES Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, th...
FRANCES MAYES I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The...
FRANCES MAYES When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every singl...
FRANCES MAYES I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there be...
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FRANCES MAYES The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
FRANCES MAYES I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central Ameri...
FRANCES MAYES I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anythin...
FRANCES MAYES The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really en...
FRANCES MAYES Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
FRANCES MAYES I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard ...
FRANCES FARMER That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bot...
FRANCES FARMER I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't sh...
FRANCES FARMER I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
FRANCES FARMER I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After t...
FRANCES FARMER It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told ...
FRANCES FARMER I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
FRANCES FARMER If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
FRANCES FARMER I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my ha...
FRANCES FARMER But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feelin...
FRANCES FARMER There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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