Ray Nagin Time Quotations

Now is not the time to change leadership. I ask the citizens of New Orleans to let me continue this important job of rebuilding our city.

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

I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It's probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this,

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

It's a good time to run for mayor because it'll be less poor, less black, less democratic.