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While we in the VA got all of our patients out We still have 2500 patients we still need to evacuate out of the city of New Orleans. That's being done today and tomorrow.

Steve Buyer

We want to rebuild New Orleans.

Bruce Karatz

We know the housing situation is important to everyone in the New Orleans area. We are pleased to be able to give back to the community.

Randy Soth

We feel fortunate. When we look at what's going on in New Orleans, our heart goes out to them. We're just inconvenienced more than anything. They're the ones really, really going through it. I think that's what the focus should be--on them and not on us.

Jermane Mayberry

A 1967 house in Dallas can be replaced with another one; an 1867 house in New Orleans can't.

Reed Kroloff

We are trying to figure out where to move, but it certainly won't be New Orleans, ... We are hoping this will be an opportunity for something new.

Scott Black

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.

Shawna Graham

Today, we got three in the last hour. Now there's three families in New Orleans who will get their loved ones back.

David Senn

We have parishioners, but they are devastated. Out of 25,000 homes, maybe five did not get water in them. (Katrina) went through us first, and we toned it down before it hit New Orleans.

Tony Fernandez

I know that we're gonna be back in New Orleans, swinging like we've never swung before, in due time.

Kermit Ruffins

We're not planning to air the New Orleans episode. Quite frankly, we just think it may look opportunistic.

Terry Connelly

Out of sensitivity to the people of New Orleans.

Mack Bradley

I sat at his knee while 'Doc' played early New Orleans jazz and blues, Tin Pan Alley songs, and vaudevillian novelty numbers.

John Parker

This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control. We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.

Norman Mcswain

We in New Orleans are a people of faith, ... What if this tragedy should push ourselves to a greater good.

C. Hughes

We would really encourage people not to come back [to New Orleans] for at least a week.

Ivor Van Heerden

We are so positive New Orleans is a premier destination for our conference that we have already booked the convention center for a return visit in 2009.

Barbara Thomas

We have been trying for decades to clean up New Orleans public housing to provide decent housing for residents, and now it looks like God is finally making us do it.

Richard Baker

The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.

Bryan Fair

They basically just took their battles from New Orleans to here. In some cases, they even relocated to the same apartment complex.

John Cannon

All people see on TV is 95 percent of the hurricane coverage is on New Orleans. The affected area equals the size of Great Britain. It's 90,000 square miles.

Joe Vitale

I came out one day and I saw Houston Gardens, (expletive) New Orleans.

Dorothy Stukes

Any time you have a Fortune 500 company opening, it sends a message that New Orleans is open for business.

Don Hutchinson

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

Mark Smith

Dealing drugs was the economy of New Orleans.

Linda Wallace

It helps to have other from New Orleans. It really does. They always know who you feel.

Brad Hicks

Hurricane Katrina wasn't done when she unleashed her fury on America's Gulf Coast, wiping out New Orleans and devastating other coastal areas. She also dealt a severe body blow to consumer confidence across the board.

Raghavan Mayur

I think all of the airlines will feel this. It's a little more than a blip, but New Orleans and Gulfport alone is not going to put Delta into bankruptcy. I think $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.

Terry Trippler

We did grits this morning. We do have chefs from New Orleans, and we'll probably give that a try.

Mark Madison

If these ideas are given a fair chance in New Orleans and the gulf area, ... their popularity and success will create a momentum for expanding them elsewhere.

Michael Franc

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

Cheri Fields

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.

Ivor Van Heerden

You done broke me again! Now I'm walking back to New Orleans.

Frank Bass

Some of New Orleans looks beautiful--and the other half--there's a lot of work ahead. If there's a time estimate, I'd say probably about 2 to 5 years before everything is back to normal.

David Buckner

We were basically priced right out of Orleans.

Jen Dibble

In some small way, I'm doing my part on behalf of those people who lost everything. I am giving back by doing something I can do, which is cook New Orleans food like no one else.

Bill Wade

There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.

Mark Stern

We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-class areas nationwide.

David Brooks

There's a natural inclination on the part of our employees to want to be near New Orleans. And so that's what we're trying to look at. We're looking at Houston, and we're looking at several locations.

Carolyn Dineen King

The real issue, problem and challenge is city of New Orleans.

Ray Stone

Go on the streets of New Orleans ? it's secure. Have you been to New Orleans? Did anybody accost you?

Russel L. Honore

That unit was headquartered out of New Orleans.

Samantha Bingham

Do all things you normally do for a hurricane but treat this one differently because it is pointed towards New Orleans.

C. Ray Nagin

I can see the snow-capped mountains, see true native Eskimos, native Indians. And everybody is just warm and open-hearted. It's like everyone is trying so hard to help you, ... But the minute I can move back, I will. I lived my life there. New Orleans is home, and I'm going back home. But by the grace of God, I made it out.

Gloria Williams

Walking To New Orleans.

Fats Domino

I was working as a laundryman in New Orleans, but I also know how to cook and how to operate a forklift. What I can't do, I'll learn.

James Martin

There's 1.6 million people in New Orleans trying to get somewhere.

Mark Chambers

We're six months now after the storm, and there are still large swaths of [New Orleans] that look like they did a month after the storm. It's just inexcusable.

Matt Fellowes

This is as seismic and massive [to New Orleans] as the Civil War was to the rest of the country.

Robbie Vitrano

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

Tim Chapman

(On television) they were only showing one place, and that's because New Orleans was the most devastated. We didn't know about our house until a neighbor told us.

Megan Edwards

In New Orleans, 70 percent of their stations were flooded and many will never be useable again.

Bill Metcalf

They're actually going to relieve some of the New Orleans firefighters who have been on duty since the storm hit.

Pete Piringer

I am so excited about working with Jesse, ... I haven't met him yet, but I hear he is a really nice guy and it will be my pleasure to work with him on this tour which will bring us to New Orleans on August 9.

Hope Partlow

We cannot abandon these institutions, and we cannot abandon the city of New Orleans.

Michael Lomax

This one may well have been painted in Mexico, when Austin was there in 1823 getting his first land grant confirmed. There would have been artists of that caliber working in Mexico. But it could have been painted in St. Louis or New Orleans before he came to Texas.

Gregg Cantrell

My guess is there will be fewer black people in New Orleans.

John Maginnis

And there's a shortage of labor in New Orleans and if we don't get a lot of volunteers going down there, some of the stuff won't get done.

Lee Powell

In a way, you've left yourself no choice, because the budget, as it turned out, wasn't any better prepared than New Orleans.

Robert Bixby

One of the doctors was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit.

Jenni Faulkner

I got called up from New Orleans, actually.

Mark Loretta

The intent is to take everybody back to New Orleans.

Charles Zewe

Last night two Boston College students who were visiting students from Loyola University in New Orleans were stabbed on Chestnut Hill Avenue about 1:30 in the morning.

Jack Dunn

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

Donald Payne

Brides really want to have their weddings in New Orleans. I'm excited to say most of our brides will be (rescheduling) their events in the spring.

Char Schroeder

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Jeremy Davenport

I am not aware of anyone who's committed to large-scale redevelopment in New Orleans.

Robert Dye

If we can accommodate these students until [New Orleans'] Tulane is up and running, then we're happy to do so.

Jennifer Robinson

To be all gloom and doom about what happened is to miss what New Orleans is all about.

Jerry Maher

We've got quite a few New Orleans bands coming this year.

John Nugent

We just wanted to present a better tone for 'Better Life,' and I had been down to New Orleans and was struck by a combination of things -- how much has been done and how little has been done. We just wanted to bring a little more awareness back to the cause down there.

Keith Urban

We'll never be able to thank those guys enough, ... We're just so grateful... Those Coast Guard guys had been out there in Biloxi, in Mobile, in New Orleans and they just happened to be flying low and there were sunny skies.

Charles Butler

With the mass flooding they had in New Orleans dental records will probably be non-obtainable, medical records are out, so that I guess the only thing that they could do would probably be DNA testing.

James Griffin

We wish the city good luck because actually, New Orleans is more about an attitude and a spirit than a bunch of buildings.

Bruce Woods

I think what took place in New Orleans got their attention big time.

Henry Garrett

We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton, another non-bid contract.

Leslie Cagan

Right now we just want this game in Atlanta to be one of the best ones we've ever put on. Then we'll worry about the future. We need to do it for the people of New Orleans.

Mark Romig

We'll rebuild, of course, ... But what made New Orleans is the polyglot, the tapestry, the mosaic, the gumbo. So the French Quarter gets most of the attention, but the Quarter feeds from the arteries of the neighborhoods.

Marc Morial

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Doug Thornton

We don't build stairs here. Everything in New Orleans is up off the ground with stairs, but here everything is built on a cement slab.

Lee Price

This is indeed an historic moment in the life ? not only in the church of New Orleans but in the whole city, ... The structure which harbors the soul of our city has come back to life. ... Thanks be to God.

C. Hughes

They lived in eastern New Orleans and lost everything. I'm not going to ask them to come back and play for the tip jar.

Pepper Keenan

Why is that, Mike? I know that you had identified this as a major problem, that New Orleans had potential for great disaster, but what is it that you did not anticipate?

Hannah Storm

So many are contributing already - movie stars, activists, businesses. We think that by establishing a fund that can be specifically directed to New Orleans assistance, we can help a lot of people.

Tami Frazier

It's going to be great. We won't be on our home floor, but it will be nice to be back in New Orleans.

Monte Towe

I'm worried about all the people in New Orleans.

Fats Domino

There's not a strong history of good government in New Orleans, or strong government, or effective government.

Bill Young

And then if everything comes together as we hope it will, we will move to Baton Rouge and that will be for an indefinite period. What will determine that [moving back to New Orleans] is the condition of our building, which we know very little about today.

Carolyn Dineen King

If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place.

William Jefferson

We just want to get the word out that New Orleans is open for business.

Jim Hoskins

We come here for meals and to see the people we've met from the different areas of New Orleans. We watch TV and we talk and we see how everybody else is doing. It's like a support group here.

Ava Sevin

They give a nice report and things are supposed to happen, but they don't, ... I know with what's going on in New Orleans -- this is nothing -- but still...

Karen Lane

I know Bruce (Paltrow) would want me to pay tribute to New Orleans, his favorite city, and all the Gulf Coast and our kids in Iraq . Let's get the heck out of there. Thank you all.

Blythe Danner

Hurricane Katrina devastated nearly everyone's life in New Orleans; it was the least we could do for our own loved ones.

Sunna Ali

I think it's important for the saints to play. To let the city of New Orleans know, hey, this is the first step in moving forward.

James Thomas

Louisiana had been on a roll, but they literally came to a crashing halt, ... New Orleans is not going to be a good location for filming, probably for several years.

Jack Kyser

We were playing to win. We weren't coming in here feeling sorry for the New Orleans Saints. We just didn't get it done.

Ricky Proehl

It's a core element of the city's identity. It's a part of everything in New Orleans. It's not just entertainment - it's part of the way people conceive of life.

Tom Piazza

New Orleans is probably the only city in America that has its own culture. There are things you can't find anyplace but there.

Branford Marsalis

I would not rebuild New Orleans where it is.

Gary Griggs

We cannot live without it, ... A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans.

Ari Kelman

Washington, D.C. to New Orleans: Drop dead.

Mort Kondracke

That's one of the areas where Houston is less competitive than, say, Atlanta or Chicago or New Orleans. All of them have five or six hotels of 1,000 rooms each. We have two.

John Keeling

You could hear any sort of music all day long in New Orleans. But we won't really know for a while, the full effect. It really is a shame, and hopefully they will recover.

Marcus Belgrave

I love New Orleans. When my husband Brett and I went a few years ago, we had fun going to different restaurants and trying everything. We love Cajun food.

Kathy Osborne

I was in New Orleans during the first of those two. More than half of the town was stripped of its covering, many houses thrown down in town and country.

William Dunbar

It would be nice if a federal agency would subsidize it. We're not just important to New Orleans, we're important to the world.

Benjamin Jaffe

The true heart and soul of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, as with New Orleans itself, is music. It's the force that drives and defines us. It's not just for entertainment, but it feeds our soul.

Quint Davis

That's where we start (looking). Baton Rouge is the closest major city to New Orleans. Hard to say where this thing is going to take us in the next in few weeks.

Allan Bristow

The next few months will be critical in determining whether we can put it on. It will depend on how operable New Orleans is, and how much the city's image changes.

George Wein

Another huge loss for New Orleans. You think you lose big when you lose your house, but here we lose a person, a person that could help us uplift everything.

Leah Chase

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

Pete Fountain

Plus, Las Vegas will be the beneficiary of displaced convention business (from New Orleans), which will help stimulate demand.

Marc Falcone

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.

Harold Schaitberger

There was one family who left New Orleans and came here, and they're displaced.

William Wright

Whatever crap they were doing in New Orleans, they're doing here.

Alvin Wright

When you get that kind of development it becomes the Disney World type of New Orleans - very different from the earthy, diverse, unique environment that is New Orleans now.

Walter Peacock

Our Gulf Coast atlases are flying out the door. But I don't know whether we'll reopen in New Orleans.

Gene Ingle

That game we won last week was for pride, dignity and the city of New Orleans. That's how we have to finish the season, with that same mentality.

Charles Grant

My prayers are with the people in New Orleans, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.

Brandon Harrison

I don't want to leave New Orleans.

Fred Russell

There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people.

David Boaz

He's a secluded person, especially since we moved from California to New Orleans two years ago. And this hasn't helped.

Lynette Elps

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

Wayne Gandy

It's a similar situation to many homes in New Orleans. They've got to gut everything inside. They've got to repair the roof. There's a lot of issues.

Paul Hoolahan

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Ray Davies

A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.

Derek Ambrose

It's a legal activity, and he likes doing it. Too bad some of that money doesn't come into Texas and he has to go to Vegas or New Orleans to do it.

Dean Barkley

People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans.

Hilery Walker

That's home. You have to live in New Orleans to understand. It's a city of our own, unique and different, not anything like anywhere else.

Charlette Ford

The big deal for us is housing stock. I think New Orleans is going to be very much a smaller city than it was.

Michael Olivier

I'm very excited that our exhibition is coming to Little Rock. I think it will hopefully be helpful in explaining what African art is, and hopefully people that might not normally come to the Arkansas Arts Center will consider it and come and appreciate it. It may stimulate new art there in a new way. In New Orleans that's what we call lagniappe, a little something extra for nothing.

William Fagaly

The Sacramento area is perhaps, after New Orleans, the scariest spot in the country.

Nicholas Pinter

We're not moving too fast with getting anything accomplished. It's frustrating, but it is what it is. When I look at what's going on in New Orleans, we're just happy with what we have.

Brian Nolan

It's the front line, you cannot protect New Orleans or Jefferson until you protect St. Bernard.

Al Waller

Not only is the city at risk, but the culture is at risk. This might be the last generation to see how New Orleans was.

Travis Bockenstedt

In New Orleans, the funeral traditions are there to remind you that life goes on.

Tom Piazza

It was introduced to New Orleans by French colonists. It's originally from Europe.

Lester Sullivan

(We need) supplies, something to sleep on. We lost everything. We used to live in New Orleans.

Connie Williams

It's unbelievable what happened in New Orleans. It's really messed guys up. Some guys won't even go back there right now. They can't take it.

Willis Reed

You've heard New Orleans is poor, ... Well, it's poor because the government lets it be that way. The minimum wage is $5.25 an hour. You can't live on that.

Francisco Lopez

If you want to get some soul in your body, New Orleans is the place!

Alton Williams

The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We know a few of them are violent criminals.

Alvin Wright

They're asking me would I be willing to go to New Orleans. I said, 'Of course.'

Robert Abraham

Who could argue with the 'New Orleans Saints of San Antonio'?

Brian Bell

There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years.

Franklin Graham

If I had the choice, and it was at all feasible to operate in New Orleans, why would I move?

Craig Miller

Dianne doesn't really have an obvious New Orleans connection. But she's very familiar with the repertoire, and she wanted to help out.

Peter Martin

We've tried to find out if they can reschedule. ... We'd obviously love to keep that business in New Orleans.

Donna Karl

We're from New Orleans. When it's 42 degrees, it's cold.

Pierre Gant

We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now.

Delores Killette

We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to feel like we were competing with them.

Paula Brown

We weren't going to leave but we were told that 18 to 20 feet of water in New Orleans we knew we had to get the kids out, ... It was a mandatary evacuation so we put what we could in the car and left and been on the road ever since.

Jeanne Clark

I remember a young woman I met in Houston. She was leaving New Orleans and going to Minnesota.

Gerald Newman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Joyce Christensen

It's a traditional New Orleans drink. I'm sure in New Orleans they haven't stopped drinking them.

Jerry Maher

That's a very attractive home game, and we don't want to lose that. But we don't always know what's happening in New Orleans and how it will affect us.

Herb Vincent

I don't see how there could be any future for New Orleans without music.

Tom Piazza

We have a New Orleans chapter of 21st Century Leadership. Most of the people staying there are chapter members and extended family, ... We are expecting 50 more people soon.

Sam Walker

I'm happy that the film captures the spirit of this city that will allow it to survive, ... As [musician and narrator] Art Neville says, 'In New Orleans, you're born into music and you die into music.'

Michael Murphy

Based on what I heard, it was more yeah than no that we'll be back in New Orleans next year, about 70 to 30.

Donte' Stallworth

New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.

Mark Adler

People don't really understand that a lot of those people are not going back to New Orleans. You don't rebuild ghettos.

Wayne Gandy

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Fred Powell

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

Sandra Gordon

My wife and kids were born in New Orleans.

Douglas Brinkley

When are people going to link up the costs of rebuilding New Orleans with the cost of rebuilding Iraq? It's going to equate to, where are we spending our money and what are we doing?

Peter Hart

We had to drive in hours and hours of traffic to Jackson, Miss., because our flight from New Orleans was canceled. We got a flight out of there, which was the last flight before the airport closed.

Frankie Muniz

Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.

Ari Kelman

It's complicated, because a lot of people from New Orleans had contempt for Houston because it's so modern and spiffy, but the jobs are here.

John Boles

There needs to be a vision at the federal level ? a vision for what the city of New Orleans is going to look like and what's going to happen to the 600,000 households that have been displaced.

Matt Fellowes

This is indeed a historic moment in the life of the church of New Orleans, indeed for the whole city of New Orleans, ... This structure which harbors the soul of the city has been brought back to life. Thanks be to God.

Alfred Hughes

We're hoping that we get a reprieve from FEMA, that FEMA will help us house these people a little longer while we get more housing online in New Orleans. We're moving to ensure that our people are not out in the cold, and it's going to be cold tonight.

Mark Smith

[Harrah's New Orleans sustained] very little damage, ... We've been very fortunate there.

Gary Loveman

Some of these people are not going home. We have a number from New Orleans who lived in the Ninth Ward, and know they have nothing to go home to. Some have found jobs in our area and are looking for jobs. They're doing all the things they need to be doing to be part of our culture.

Nancy Brown

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Donald Harrison

This is a very concrete way we can help specific families, and I think it's the least we can do. Students in New Orleans and in the affected area are going to lose half a year of classes.

Peter Hutton

We stayed with the prison bus, and once we were in New Orleans, we never saw any cops.

John Tucker

We are going to continue to talk with city and state officials, everybody who will need to be involved in this process. This is totally about New Orleans.

Paul Hoolahan

I've thought about stayin' around here. That's on my mind. Don't think I hadn't thought about it, 'cause I have. But it's like a guy at the clinic [at Fort Chaffee] said, 'I like it here, but I ain't gonna lie - I miss New Orleans,'.

Alton Williams

[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.

Benigno Aguirre

The desire to bring conservative, free-market ideas to the Gulf Coast is white hot. We want to turn the Gulf Coast into a magnet for free enterprise. The last thing we want is a federal city where New Orleans once was.

Mike Pence

There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans.

Jeb Bush

The commissioner mentioned the above vendors as some who were at New Orleans conference recently, ... He thought we might contact them via phone and see if they are interested in Excellence in Corrections conference.

Dan Stone

A huge section of the U.S. economy is down. It's as complicated as the rescue efforts in New Orleans; it's all these different pieces. You have to get electricity restored, find out where your employees are; it's almost a mind-boggling exercise.

Barton Smith

Things are not good in New Orleans. It's very serious now.

Richard Zuschlag

The food, the jazz culture, the lovely ladies; I miss everything about New Orleans.

Justin Spicer

If you want to look at what probably - unfortunately - will happen in New Orleans in the next 10 years, look at what has happened in St. Louis in the last decade.

Nicholas Pinter

The one thing that sticks with me is that I love New Orleans. It's not a city. It's a way of life. It's a place that you fall deeply in love with.

Jesse Moore

It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to negligence.

Al Naomi

It has been known for a long time that New Orleans was not adequately protected from the worst storms.

Paul Kemp

It's the best decision we could have made. There's no way to play a game with everything going on. With everything that happened in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, football is the last thing on people's minds.

Johnny Thomas

It would be naive for a buyer to assume that's because it's a long way away that these vehicles haven't made it to our state. Likely there are less here than in areas close to New Orleans. But if you were a scam artist, why not go as far away as you can where they're not thinking about it.

Karl Newman

I don't think it has anything to do with New Orleans.

Carl Olson

We will definitely operate normally out of New Orleans. We have not put a time frame on it.

Tim Gallagher

The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all this talk about bringing people back to New Orleans, but without tourism there won't be any jobs for them to come home to.

David Rubenstein

I just got an e-mail from the College Board a few minutes ago. Everyone, including Ed, are fine down in the fifth-floor ballroom of the Sheraton New Orleans.

Susan Maher

It's surreal because I was comparing it to the New Orleans I went to for conventions and meetings, ... It's a city desperate to heal.

Bruce Wallace

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

Brendan Gaughan

This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know I'm going to get reimbursed for it.

Haan Phelps