Ray Nagin

“We're going to rebuild this city, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood.”

“This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have it no other way. It's a chocolate city.”

“Excuse my French — everybody in America — but I am pissed.”

“Now get off your asses and do something, and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country.”

“They are showing the victims and they are showing the criminals. I am telling you, these are not the people of New Orleans. These are the thugs.”

“I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses.”

“We have a serious problem. We have many, many, I would say, thousands of people that are dead and are in the water.”

“I was an insider's outsider.”

“You guys are watching this stuff, and you're counting the bodies. You're showing us the dead.”

“The storm is coming. It's going to be a big one. You need to get out.”

“I represent the New New Orleans.”