Ray Nagin: “Read my lips. We will rebuild New Orleans East and the Lower Ninth Ward.”

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

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.

At some point in time, the truth needs to rule.

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.