Ray Nagin Quotes

We want to bring New Orleans back. Rita set us back about three to five days, but we are very much on schedule, ... We will begin the re-entry plan with business owners and residents of Algiers. Then we will stop, assess our progress, and move on to the previously targeted zip codes.

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We're at a time in our history right now where we can move our state forward as never seen before or we can continue to languish in mediocrity and complacency, ... I choose to move forward and help write this history, not just be part of it.

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We had people trapped on roofs, et cetera ... and they didn't know about it That's just impossible.

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You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix, and that's the reason why they were breaking in hospitals and drugstores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their jones, if you will.

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With Hurricane Rita behind us, the task at hand is to bring New Orleans back. We want everyone to assess the risks and make an informed decision about re-entry plans.

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Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.

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I'll be going on in another direction God has for me. I want to ask you to respect my privacy, respect my decision and just respect my right to be by myself.

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I'll tell you one thing I'm not going to do, ... I'm not going to let this city go back to the crime levels we had before. We're going to do whatever it takes.

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We have to convince them to leave, ... It's not safe here.

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I think it was awful, ... I was surprised that it happened frankly. I don't know what the gentleman (Davis) did but whatever he did, he did not ... deserve what I saw on tape ... That kind of behavior is not going to be tolerated.

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The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation. We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater. With some sections of our city, the water is as deep as 20 feet.

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I'm cautiously optimistic. I want to see it happen (Saturday). I want to see it happen next week. Then, when I see consistency of delivery, I'll feel like there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

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The facts are that the 911 emergency response system will be up and operational this Wednesday, ... American Morning.

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We want you to take this very seriously, ... This not a test. This is the real deal. And I don't want to panic you but I wanted to make sure you understand.

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People are saying it's too early to bring back jazz, the gumbo and the red beans, ... If it's too early, when is the right time

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Let's do what it takes to bust through the bureaucracy of the federal government and the state government, ... And let's make sure that these people who are traumatized are better taken care of.

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That four weeks is going to stop all commerce in the city of New Orleans. It also impacts the nation, because no domestic oil production will happen in southeast Louisiana.

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we'll have to make another tough call.

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We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

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Its going to be awful and its going to wake the nation up again.

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I would like to say, write e-mails, send faxes, send letters to your congressmen, to your senators, and tell them 'Let's not delay help anymore,'

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We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rebuild the greatest city in the world, ... It's been a wild ride, and we're getting ready to get on another wild ride.

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We will have life. We will have commerce. We will have people getting back into their normal modes of operation.

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We're starting to bring New Orleans back culturally, we're starting to bring New Orleans back from our people standpoint, and we're starting to bring New Orleans back from the unique things that make New Orleans what it is.

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At some point in time the dead bodies are going to start to create a serious disease issue.

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