“Across the board, conservatives believe that if we're going to fund the entire recovery of New Orleans, this is an opportunity to do urban renewal in a common-sense way,”
Tom Feeney
“My impression of New Orleans is this: That there is a recovery on the way,”
George W Bush
“What he did in New Orleans -- I mean, that's worse than what Bull Connor did in his entire career as a racist in the South. Look at these neighborhoods before Katrina hit. Bush made that community what it is. Katrina did the rest, in partnership with Bush, to deliver the final blow.”
Charles Barron
“The arrival of the Delphin Renaissance marks the first step in the recovery of the cruise industry in New Orleans.”
Gary LaGrange
“We're keeping the same level of folks in New Orleans to tell the ongoing recovery and the rebuilding and all the things that have been dominating the screen for the last 3-1/2 weeks.”
John Stack
“New Orleans is, of course, our next thrust, and we're going to have to have to staff recovery efforts down there, but it'll be a different kind of recovery effort, ... We'll be supporting the EOC in Baton Rouge with temporary communications until the National Guard can get in.”
Gary Stratton
“We need funding to partially restore New Orleans.”
Don Smithburg
