Ray Nagin: “I think it's unfortunate. I think that for a FEMA director to be, you know, in Washington and trying to deflect…”

I'm going to be pushing for at least $1.5 billion of that $6.2 billion for us to immediately infuse into the economy.

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.

I want America to understand, the city of New Orleans took on so much water, that 80 percent of it's flooded. And we still have a tremendous amount of work to do. And we need tremendous amount of more help from the federal government.

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.