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Business will be pretty brisk for the next couple of months, once they get power and they get water out of the city. - Richard Baker Quotes

Business will be pretty brisk for the next couple of months, once they get power and they get water out of the city.

she was a brave, brave woman. She stood up and sat down at a moment in American history, when very few other people thought that was appropriate or had the courage to do it - in 1955. She said, 'Why should I be a second-class citizen? I'm an American, and that's all that should really matter. I'm willing to take the consequences.' And she did. She became a role model for generations that followed. She certainly has to be in the front rank of American heroes. - Richard Baker Quotes

she was a brave, brave woman. She stood up and sat down at a moment in American history, when very few other people thought that was appropriate or had the courage to do it - in 1955. She said, 'Why should I be a second-class citizen? I'm an American, and that's all that should really matter. I'm willing to take the consequences.' And she did. She became a role model for generations that followed. She certainly has to be in the front rank of American heroes.

I would be very hard pressed to think of a good historical analogy. I don't think there is one. - Richard Baker Quotes

I would be very hard pressed to think of a good historical analogy. I don't think there is one.

In Louisiana we call this putting the fox in charge of the hen house, - Richard Baker Quotes

In Louisiana we call this putting the fox in charge of the hen house,

There will be some words [said in her honor] and probably a prayer or two, and probably a military color guard of some sort, presumably one or more wreaths. So there will be sort of a decorous atmosphere in this majestic Rotunda. - Richard Baker Quotes

There will be some words [said in her honor] and probably a prayer or two, and probably a military color guard of some sort, presumably one or more wreaths. So there will be sort of a decorous atmosphere in this majestic Rotunda.

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It could have happened 100 years ago -- two powerful senators struggling with the meaning of the Constitution, - Richard Baker Quotes

It could have happened 100 years ago -- two powerful senators struggling with the meaning of the Constitution,

[* Add Rep. Richard Baker to the list of congressional Republicans who have made unfortunate comments about hurricane victims -- although he's the first we know of from Louisiana. The Wall Street Journal's] Washington Wire ... We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did. - Richard Baker Quotes

[* Add Rep. Richard Baker to the list of congressional Republicans who have made unfortunate comments about hurricane victims -- although he's the first we know of from Louisiana. The Wall Street Journal's] Washington Wire ... We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.

We have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it. - Richard Baker Quotes

We have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it.

This is an extraordinarily important step. - Richard Baker Quotes

This is an extraordinarily important step.

Now your people that live out there and your vacationers have no water, - Richard Baker Quotes

Now your people that live out there and your vacationers have no water,

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