Ray Nagin

What you're seeing is the residuals from a system prior to Katrina that was broken. Katrina is exposing everything in its rawest forms now.

We, as black people, it's time. It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are. This city…

We, as black people, it's time. It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are. This city…

I love New York City, wonderful New York. I tell you what I will never do again is refer to that site as a hole. It's a sacred, you know, site that is presently in an undeveloped state.

There will be no shelter of last resort. We will pre-stage buses to get people to the convention center and out of the city.

We shocked the world.

I want to thank all the wonderful people of the city of New Orleans for this encouragement, for this victory, for this time for us to set the stage for our recovery.

Read my lips. This is a plan for getting people out of the city. There is no shelter of last resort.

At the end of the day, people are going to look at me from -- as they've voted for other candidates, and they're going to see my opponent has an 84 percent record of voting against business. I'm a business guy, I'm a reformer. They're…

This is the perfect race for me as far as I'm concerned. You know, the first time I ran, I was able to coalesce with white voters much quicker. I still got a significant portion of the black vote. This time it's different.

Because we don't have a lot. We don't dominate business, we don't dominate a lot of things. So political power is very important.

And I'm expressing my dissatisfaction, my outrage, and my demand that this foolishness stops.