My conscience is clear,

Over the next 12 to 15 hours, water will rise on the east bank of New Orleans to the levels where some sections of the city which are dry now could see nine or 10...

I’ve gone from anger to despair to seeing us turn the corner, … It’s going to be awful and it’s going to wake the nation up again.

If fire breaks out, we could lose a significant amount of what we cherish in the city,

Chief Compass is loved by many and we will miss him,

He answered my questions, and he appeared to be pretty sincere.

I think it’s going to send a wonderful message to the world that New Orleans is on the road to recovery.

I want to see corporations signing up for conventions, I want to see people coming to visit New Orleans to help us rebound our economy.

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.

There’s a breach in the 17th Street Canal.

We are going to lose a significant portion of our population

moving to a much more aggressive position as it relates to temporary housing.

You need to listen very carefully, … For the next two or three months, in this area, there will not be any commerce, at all. No electricity, no restaurants. This is the real deal. It’s...

I’m starting to see rays of light,

start to breathe again.

I don’t know whether it’s the governor’s problem, or it’s the president’s problem, but somebody needs to get … on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out right now,

It’s such a sad day to come here, … My sympathy goes out to all the families whose loved ones have been identified and also for the families who are still seeking their relatives and...

We anticipate that we could receive a storm surge of three to five feet. The Army Corps of Engineers has made some work to ensure that we can handle that type of storm surge with...

We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.

The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation,

If you’re below the flood plain with no insurance, I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of options for you,

I’m taking them out of here as quickly as I can, … I’m not going to sit back and let another one die.

[He conceded that he made] a couple of specific mistakes, … get over their differences and work together.

My heart is heavy tonight,

For God’s sake, shut up and send us somebody.

Let me caution everyone: We have not done the secondary searches in the areas where the water was the highest. So we still have a lot of work to do, and those numbers probably will...

I am encouraging everyone to leave,

I’m going to talk to him about what it’s going to take to keep this city going over the next three months and ask him to support us in the short term,

Let me just say it one more time and make sure everybody understands it … We will rebuild this entire city,

We believe our re-entry plan properly balances safety concerns and the needs of our citizens to begin rebuilding their lives,

I’ll just tell you, I’m not a big FEMA fan.

They’ve been holding the city together for three or four days, almost by themselves — doing everything imaginable, and the toll is just too much for them,

It’s very hot. There is no shade. We need to get provisions to them, … They have zero.

I know we had a little disappointment earlier with some signals we’re getting from Washington but the international community may be able to fill the gap.

We made our decision based upon people. If they made a decision based on assets, not people … then they’re going to have to live with that,

going to be stuck there for a little bit longer.

gone from anger to despair to seeing us turn the corner.

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...

I don’t know what he’s referring to,

Hopefully that will dispel rumors that we are not working together,

We are prepared as a city to put on the best Mardi Gras that we have ever seen.

They don’t have a clue what’s going on down here, … There’s nothing happening. They’re feeding the public a line of bull and they’re spinning, and people are dying down here.

Most of the experts are telling us that any house that was in flood waters for a couple of weeks where the water was above their (electrical) outlets, is probably a property that is going...

This is a once in a lifetime event, … The city of New Orleans has never seen a hurricane of this magnitude hit it directly.

I struggle with, ‘Are we moving too soon? Are we moving too slow?’ … You guys are pushing me in an area I don’t want to go. I don’t want to lose another person.

They are thinking small, man. This is a major, major deal.

Within the next week or two we should have about 180,000 people back in the city of New Orleans.

There are toxins in the water, gas leaks, we are fighting at least four fires… It is not safe.

The city of New Orleans, starting this weekend, will start to breathe again.

Housing is the biggest challenge we have right now, … serious money.