The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all this talk about bringing people back to New Orleans, but without tourism there won't be any jobs for them to come home to.
David Rubenstein
Related For September, October and November, tourism to New Orleans will be crippled for sure. BOBBY BOWERS Southwest Airlines recognizes that tourism and convention business has been, and will continue to be... COLLEEN BARRETT We certainly want to get Louisiana people back to Louisiana and ultimately New Orleans people back t... ERNEST JOHNSON New Orleans will get going when tourism gets going. It's got to start somewhere. Why not us? BARBARA LEVY We've secured three pieces of relocated business from New Orleans that helped an otherwise slow firs... GREG SAUNDERS It might seem trivial to be discussing Mardi Gras at this point, but when you consider what Mardi Gr... BARRY KERN We've never done anything like this before. Our mission has always been to bring tourism to New York... CRISTYNE NICHOLAS Visitors to New Orleans spend $5 billion per year, and 40% of that number is convention and meeting ... DONNA KARL New Orleans did not have a robust economy to begin with. I think it's going to be very difficult for... EARL BLACK I'm walkin' to New Orleans, I'm going to need two pair of shoes, When I get through walkin' to you, ... FATS DOMINO From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orl... GARY LAGRANGE We would really encourage people not to come back [to New Orleans] for at least a week. IVOR VAN HEERDEN The intent is to take everybody back to New Orleans. CHARLES ZEWE They're from New Orleans without a home, ... I think this means a lot to them. DAVID SAPERSTEIN This is indeed a historic moment in the life of the church of New Orleans, indeed for the whole city... ALFRED HUGHES This program gives some hope to residents who want to come back to New Orleans to rebuild. BRIAN LEWIS As soon as we can get back, we're going to New Orleans . MARIE HUNT Harrah's New Orleans is a vitally important property to us, and we want one of our most skilled oper... ANTHONY SANFILIPPO I think that's what people were waiting for. Now they can start getting things back to normal. That'... DR. JEFFREY COCO New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting. BRIAN KERN The paining that I painted is a spell to revitalize New Orleans, since New Orleans is home to mystic... DANNY SIMMONS New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn'... ANTHONY CANNON Our city's tourism industry, which is now enjoying record highs, was revitalized with help and suppo... CRISTYNE NICHOLAS We cannot afford not to have Mardi Gras. That message would be -- New Orleans is closed for business... ARTHUR HARDY We Are Taking New Orleans Back. THE CLARION-LEDGER Mardi Gras will tell America that New Orleans is open for business. BRIAN KERN Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O... DOUG E. FRESH All of our New Orleans people are distributed throughout all the states. I was born and raised there... LINDA LACEY The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a bett... DONALD HARRISON They lived in eastern New Orleans and lost everything. I'm not going to ask them to come back and pl... PEPPER KEENAN I don't know if you've got something to shout about, but we've got something to shout about. What yo... GREG FORTENBERRY America is unimaginable without New Orleans. If you can imagine 20th Century literature without Tenn... ANTHONY BARTHELEMY We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans). WYNTON MARSALIS Most of these people don't have jobs to go back to because New Orleans is gone. They're going to hav... JOANNE NIGG We'll be putting people back to work - and once again helping draw hundreds of thousands of tourists... ANTHONY SANFILIPPO We were playing to show people how New Orleans feels -- the resolve to push on and come back. And, a... WAYNE GANDY We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left, KATIE JOHNSON These are my people. I want to get back to New Orleans when I can, but for now, I'm helping those wh... LEE PRICE I believe it's going to come back. I feel its going to come back bigger and stronger. We're here (Ok... GEORGE SHINN We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to... PAULA BROWN Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked ab... RAY NAGIN We have an ongoing challenge to get budget support for corps projects. Iraq has been hurting us beca... GREG AJEMIAN With due recognition of the severity of the New Orleans situation, folks will be trying to pull in b... HEYWOOD SANDERS You done broke me again! Now I'm walking back to New Orleans. FRANK BASS It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans, ... The displacement of the populati... GEORGE FRIEDMAN It's all about New Orleans. ELAINE PETROCELLI Approximately 250 New Orleans-based Shell employees returned home today. Another 750 employees will ... FRANK GLAVIANO I'm worried about all the people in New Orleans. FATS DOMINO To be all gloom and doom about what happened is to miss what New Orleans is all about. JERRY MAHER There are actually a lot of New Orleans natives in the area. They have their own social network, and... JACE HARRIS We are pleased to return Norwegian Sun back to her winter home in the Big Easy and in some small way... ANDY STUART Out of sensitivity to the people of New Orleans. MACK BRADLEY I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to ... IRVIN MAYFIELD Obviously, the people of New Orleans have not registered anywhere else. That's the story. They want ... ERNIE ROBERSON Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and... CYRIL NEVILLE Walking To New Orleans. ALICIA KEYS Walking To New Orleans FATS DOMINO Any time you have a Fortune 500 company opening, it sends a message that New Orleans is open for bus... DON HUTCHINSON Go on the streets of New Orleans - it's secure, ... Have you been to New Orleans? Did anybody accost... SALVATION ARMY New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' JONAH HILL New Orleans in an amazing town. BENJAMIN WALKER I'm extremely happy. My family is safe and we have something to come back to. Now I want to be a par... ERIC PULLEN There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th... CHARLES LANDRY I feel saddest about, not necessarily the places that have been ruined, but the way of life. New Orl... AARON WILKINSON There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more log... DAVID BOAZ The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that ... BLAKE LIVELY Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to re... GARY ROBERTS It felt like we were actually at home in New Orleans. San Antonio got rowdy out there for us. It fel... JASON CRAFT This ain't safe. It ain't safe at all. I feel like we're back in New Orleans. JOSH JONES New Orleans has a lot of underutilized space and property. There is a huge opportunity to attract pe... CAMILLE STRACHAN The simple request was this: the people who are displaced, let them vote from wherever they are loca... DAMON HEWITT ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orle... ROSEANNE BARR I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of p... TYLER PERRY They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now. DAVID WAGNER People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans. HILERY WALKER Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken ... JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, t... CHRIS ROSE Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they... CHRIS ROSE But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never for... ANNE RICE I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faul... CHRIS ROSE Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! NIKKI SIXX there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had n... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darknes... JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE If New Orleans passes on this opportunity to improve itself, then we're not going to be a company he... DEAN TAYLOR To be honest, I don't think there's going to be any more New Orleans. JUDY JONES You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans ha... DREW BREES I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about m... DREW BREES We've tried to find out if they can reschedule. ... We'd obviously love to keep that business in New... DONNA KARL I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life. IRVIN MAYFIELD The question in New Orleans is what will happen to the economy. The key to housing is jobs. DOUG DUNCAN You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orle... TROMBONE SHORTY People don't really understand that a lot of those people are not going back to New Orleans. You don... WAYNE GANDY we've got so much stuff now, we're giving stuff to other people, other families that come from New O... ANDRE BROWN To see this today has brought a great joy to me, We needed to send a message to ourselves and to the... DONALD RHODES You think people are homeless now, this city is really going to be homeless then. Nobody's going to ... WILLIAM JONES I'm a survivor, ... I'm going to find a home and job here and make it. I may go back and visit New O... GERALD WALLACE There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans, JEB BUSH Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not g... PAUL PRUDHOMME The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable, MIKE TIDWELL The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable. MIKE TIDWELL
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