We are not taking any crap, ... If you come back to this city and you think it's going to be the way it was before, we have a rude awakening for you.

It scared the crap out of me, ... I immediately said, 'My God, I have to call a mandatory evacuation.'

I think this is kind of a put-up-or-shut-up moment, ... How concerned are you, city of New Orleans, about fixing this problem? . . . Are we going to be entertained by the violent nature of these murders, or are we really going to try to fix it? What's the deal?

We now have a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the city of New Orleans.

[New Orleans] basically sits like a bowl, and most of the city is under sea level ... so if we get a storm like Ivan to hit us directly

I'm hoping to come up with a system that if we do have to do any mass demolitions down in the Lower Ninth Ward, ... that we figure out a proper compensation formula for those homeowners and they move either back in those areas or in an area that is comparable.