I know a lot of you are frustrated. I am frustrated, too. But 80 percent of our city went under water and we have a lot of work to do. And the only way we...

We’re out of nuclear crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode,

The prospects of getting new revenue streams is really dicey,

New Orleans is coming back, … Our culture is coming back. I want to listen to jazz. I’m tired of listening to helicopters.

What I’m trying to figure out is, should we bypass all the political stuff — you know, these people jumping up and down every time we propose something — and just go straight to the...

We are facing the storm that most of us have feared, … The Big Easy.

So you probably have another 50-60,000 out there, … You do the math, man, what do you think? Five percent is unreasonable? Ten percent? Twenty percent? It’s going to be a big number.

I think the president for some reason probably did not understand the full magnitude of this catastrophe on the front end,

We are suspending all re-entry into the city of New Orleans,

It is with great sadness that we announce we were unable to hold on to some of our dedicated city workers, … We have searched high and low … and we are just not able...