Paul Tagliabue Quotes
Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.
Macur, Juliet. "Tagliabue Pledges to Keep Saints in New Orleans." The New York Times, 31 Dec. 2005, p. D2.
He was chiding Republicans who commonly extolled community values and yet would rarely invest any resources in developing or maintaining communities.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an organization supposedly devoted to financing poverty elimination had supported the building of a luxury 5-Star hotels in Ghana, Egypt and several other poor nations. The construction creates jobs as does the operation of the hotel, but critics complain that the impact on poverty is small compared to the size of the investment. The fancy hotels are too expensive for the local small businessmen and women to use in their commercial development. The elites and the AID givers and NGOs of course have better—and more expensive—accommodations.
Paul John Tagliabue is the former Commissioner of the National Football League. He took the position in 1989 and served until September 1, 2006. He had previously served as a lawyer for the NFL. Tagliabue also served as Chairman of Board of Directors of Georgetown University from 2009 to 2015.