it would be a mistake to rebuild the Ninth Ward.

We're going to have re-entry for a 'look and leave' into the Ninth Ward starting on Wednesday into those areas where we don't have the large debris fields.

It's a matter of circling the wagons. In communities like the Lower Ninth Ward, how are they going to have a say in what happens there if we don't reach these people and get them to vote?

There would have been minor flooding, two to three feet, in the Lower Ninth Ward. Most of the Chalmette area would have been dry.

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.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.