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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The rise of the Earth’s temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

If we’re unified, there’s nothing we cannot do.