Aaron Broussard Quotes

• We have been abandoned by our own country.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Abandoned

• We have been abandoned by our own country. And he said, ‘Yeah, mama, somebody’s coming to get you. Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday.’ And she drowned Friday night.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Thinking, Night

• This is a horror story. I’d rather be reading it somewhere else than living it.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Horror, Reading, Living

• Nobody’s coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody’s promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m sick of the press conferences. For God’s sake, shut up and send us somebody.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in God

  Tags in Secretary, Promised

• And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Thinking

• So I’m asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don’t give me the same idiot.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Investigate, Sensitive

• We have been knocked down but you can’t keep us down.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Keep, Knocked

• You came there (to help) at a time when we desperately needed it.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desperately, Time

• I’ll always remember Maryland for its heart.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Remember

• You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a person who is desperate can express.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hugs, Thanks, Person, Desperate

• Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I’m asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don’t give me the same idiot.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bureaucracy, Congress, People

Aaron Broussard (11)

Birth:	6th January, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Broussard was born in Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana. He moved to Kenner, a city in Jefferson Parish, in 1958. He received a law degree from Loyola University New Orleans in 1973. The following year he was elected to the Jefferson Parish School Board and reelected in 1976. In 1977, he was elected as a district chairman to the Jefferson Parish Council and re-elected in 1981. He successfully ran for mayor of Kenner in 1982, and he was reelected in 1986, 1990, and 1994. Broussard was elected Chairman of the Jefferson Parish Council in 1995, and reelected in 1999.

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