That's why we are taking this unprecedented move, ... The storm surge most likely will topple our levee system.

It looks as though at this point there's a 50 to 60 percent chance that New Orleans will receive tropical force winds which is probably our biggest concern,

We will have life. We will have commerce. We will have people getting back into their normal modes of operation.

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.

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.