- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gulf Coast Quotes
On beaches, energy, and the slow work of Gulf Coast recovery.
This collection highlights the Gulf Coast as a place many outsiders underestimate, home to real beaches, major energy infrastructure, and long-term recovery challenges. One quote ties its natural appeal directly to Beauty that surprises visitors.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I'm headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches - even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.
- Disproportionate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
- Bring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020