Ray Nagin: “We will put all of our resources to focus on murders and violent crime. Everything we have.”

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.

In a city that's special, New Orleans, the brand that not only locals marvel at, but the nation and the international community marvel at. That's the New Orleans we're going to build.

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.

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