Mitch Landrieu

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

— Mitch Landrieu

“It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot…

— Mitch Landrieu

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major…

— Mitch Landrieu

“I knew that taking down the monuments was going to be tough, but you elected me to do the right thing, not…

— Mitch Landrieu

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together.…

— Mitch Landrieu

“They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge…

— Mitch Landrieu

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate…

— Mitch Landrieu

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place…

— Mitch Landrieu

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need…

— Mitch Landrieu

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the…

— Mitch Landrieu

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to…

— Mitch Landrieu

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

— Mitch Landrieu

“This is, however, about showing the whole world that we as a city and as a people are able to acknowledge, understand,…

— Mitch Landrieu

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

— Mitch Landrieu

“Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich,…

— Mitch Landrieu

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just…

— Mitch Landrieu

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been…

— Mitch Landrieu

“Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better…

— Mitch Landrieu

We`re heartened that Donald Trump wants to spend more money. I think the mayors of America would agree that we have a…

— Mitch Landrieu

“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow…

— Mitch Landrieu

“We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and…

— Mitch Landrieu

“There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.”

— Mitch Landrieu

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not…

— Mitch Landrieu

One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have…

— Mitch Landrieu

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a…

— Mitch Landrieu