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

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.

And I don't care what people are saying in Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.

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.

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.