Balance Quote by Dan Rather

New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided…

— Tyrann Mathieu

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

There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.

— Jeffrey Robinson

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now…

— Chris Rose

The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.

— Ray Nagin

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the…

— Michael Richards

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

— Drew Brees

The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of…

— Christopher Rice

When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.

— Mannie Fresh

“People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just…

— Ian McNulty

“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

— John Kennedy Toole

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