Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelters here.

We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.

We are New Orleans folk. We aren't going anywhere.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Joe Horn

But it's not about the New Orleans Saints now. It's about all those people on those cots trying to find their kids.

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.

New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting.

New Orleans had one of the most rooted populations in the nation.

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

I would not rebuild New Orleans where it is.

But protecting New Orleans will take a lot more than $2 billion.

I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

Wayne Pacelle

Who would have thought they won't be able to pump water out for 90 days? Who would have thought New Orleans would be depopulated?

Who would have thought that 80 percent of New Orleans would be underwater?

Aaron Neville

To see my New Orleans in the state she is in is my worst nightmare.

Warren Williams

Our son is a first respondor and had to stay back in New Orleans and do search and rescue,

or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.

Katie Johnson

We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left,

Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

You can't just be thinking about yourself now. Watching what's going on back in New Orleans just makes you thankful you're not in that situation.

There was no water in it. We're in the 10-20 percent of New Orleans that was not flooded.

As soon as we can get back, we're going to New Orleans .

The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.

Evan Bayh

What we are seeing in New Orleans is the result of a series of misjudgments and misdirected priorities, that have all produced an increasingly tragic result.

I've been going there since I was 6 years old. But they're going to have a whole new New Orleans than what we did. It will never be the same.

Brendan Gaughan

We got Steve a win this year so the Orleans team has won,

Everyone in New Orleans thinks this is the big one, the big one and it never comes. This time it did.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.