Oliver Thomas Quotations

Where is the soul of New Orleans? ... Vegas and Utah , parts of Texas, California , Michigan , Baton Rouge. It's all over.

We're going to have to lean on each other, hug each other.

Let me assure you, there isn't anybody walking up and down my sidewalk these days,

God has chosen him right now, ... We need to make sure that he's successful.

Maybe it has to be primitive, but it still has to happen. It would be an international shame if it didn't.

The patchwork the corps did on the Ninth Ward was nowhere near the level they did on 17th Street. It wasn't the same quality work.

We don't need soap opera watchers all day. We need people who are coming back if you are able.

This is something that should have been done a long time ago.

This is a big loss. He gave a damn,

It seems like the storms attributed to Katrina never stop. We're still finding bodies. We can't seem to put the worst of this behind us to even get to rebuilding. It's just a very, very, very bad, desperate situation down here.

It's almost like a pancake, about a football field long, ... Right where there was a wharf there is water now.

Everybody shares the blame here, ... but when you talk about the mightiest government in the world, that's a ludicrous and lame excuse. You're FEMA, and you're the big dog. And you weren't prepared either.

No major structural damage. No major damage in terms of a lot of the second floor units. A lot of the roofs: they held up pretty good. It's something we ought to be able to work together to work out. I just don't know why we haven't done it yet.

If your legs don't hurt, you can walk somewhere. If your arms don't hurt, you can pick something up.

If he (Lawson) is saying they would do the same thing over again, is he saying the same woman who died on the ramp because she couldn't get over the bridge, is he saying he would let that woman die again? ... I don't think he's thinking that. I think he's talking political. He's just trying to make white folks in Gretna think he's protecting them from all those poor black people from New Orleans.

The French Quarter, Algiers and the St. Charles Avenue corridor - all those big houses, all the things the tourists want to see - they're all still in place. We have a good foundation.