35 Quotes by Terry Ebbert

We're going to face a crisis in the very near term.

We're going to have re-entry for a 'look and leave' into the Ninth Ward starting on Wednesday into those areas where we don't have the large debris fields.

We have no criminal justice system functioning today.

There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city.

Monday we knew what we needed by numbers. We told FEMA we needed to move 30,000 people. Now we're just rolling on number 30,000. This should have been five days ago.

It is a department under a great deal of stress. I know you see some of those feelings coming out in how they act out.

I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps that some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred.

I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps. Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000.

Our goal is to ensure that we create an environment where it makes more sense to leave rather than stay.