Ray Nagin
Ray Nagin
Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr., also known as C. Ray Nagin, previously served as the 60th mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana from 2002 to 2010. A Democrat, Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 June 1956
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
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The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.
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The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.
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It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.
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We had people trapped on roofs, et cetera ... and they didn't know about it? That's just impossible.
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We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.
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Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked about New Orleans, let's enhance it. Everything you dreamed about and wished New Orleans had, let's make it happen,
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everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing.
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At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.
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At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.
We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.
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Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.
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We have the most significant challenge of any city in American history and they are dismissing ideas ad nauseam, ... Nobody is coming up with better ideas or alternative ideas, and it's really kind of teeing me off.
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Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,