Chester Jourdan Quotations

Just look at the debris removal. Look at all the stuff that's been removed and think about what it was in the days after the storm around here. It looked like a bomb had exploded.

We've got tens of thousands of homes that still need repair.

We think we're in the neighborhood of $600 million to $1 billion. That's one-twenty-ninth of the total. We don't think that's unreasonable.

Everything we've argued for is in those six counties.

Our (congressional) delegation is going to follow up with the other agencies to make sure that what happened with HUD doesn't happen again.

That's going to come nowhere close to what needs to be done.

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

Once the announcement was made, they couldn't go back.