Degrade Quote by Bill McKibben

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

— Drew Brees

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to…

— John Hickenlooper

“According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more…

— Billy Sothern

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those…

— Richard Ford

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

— Peter Max

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a…

— Elizabeth Edwards

May this be the year we stop seeing New Orleans as a mismanaged natural disaster and return to identifying it with half-naked, ungodly, man-made…

— Mardi Gras

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

— Mitch Landrieu

For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?

— Claire Messud

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

— Mitch Landrieu

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the…

— Dr. John

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The…

— Marc Morial