Ray Nagin: “We shocked the world.”

Well, you know, with any event like this, having resources and, I think, having resources coordinated. So from the federal government to the state government locally, we had everything coordinated. We had a good plan. We had practiced it…

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.

It's not our fault that the levees breached that the federal government built. It's not our fault that we were stranded and left. It's not our fault that the Road Home program only has issued 12 percent of the grants after almost two…

We will put all of our resources to focus on murders and violent crime. Everything we have.