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Letter "R" » Ray Nagin Quotes
«[Yesterday the broken city was filled with the noise of Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters and its still partly flooded highways were filled with rescue crews in flat-bottomed boats, searching those sections of the city still believed to have people living in them.] The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal, ... And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal.»
Author: Ray Nagin
«He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing, and people started moving, ... I give the president some credit on this. He sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done.»
Author: Ray Nagin
«I'm going to announce a phased repopulation plan that is going to deal with some of the areas that were least hit by the hurricane and had less water, and then within the next week or two we should have about 180,000 people back in the city of New Orleans,»
Author: Ray Nagin
«Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,»
Author: Ray Nagin
«The facts are that the 911 [emergency response] system will be up and operational this Wednesday, ... American Morning.»
Author: Ray Nagin
«The facts are we have electricity in probably 60 to 75 percent of the city -- some sections even as high as 95 percent. The facts are we're repopulating the areas that had little to no flooding.»
Author: Ray Nagin
«It scared the crap out of me, ... I immediately said, 'My God, I have to call a mandatory evacuation.' »
Author: Ray Nagin
«Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.»
Author: Ray Nagin
«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 that current situation at our levees,»
Author: Ray Nagin
«The strategy is to repopulate the city in the safest areas for now, to get enough critical mass so that the economics start to flow,»
Author: Ray Nagin
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