80 Quotes by Ray Nagin

I just tell you, I’m not a big FEMA fan.

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.

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children’s children.

They’re feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: ‘OK, if you didn’t have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?’ That’s kind of how I’m starting to think.

We’re out of nuclear crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I’m way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that’s out there.

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.