Citizens Quote by Wynton Marsalis

“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

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

“In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.”

— Dan Baum

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

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

— Chris Rose

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

— Mitch Landrieu

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

— Richard Paul Evans

The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the…

— Lynn Westmoreland

“Life in New Orleans is all about making the present--this moment, right now--as pleasant as possible. So New Orleanians, by and large, aren't tortured…

— Dan Baum

The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal…

— Edward Kennedy

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not…

— Matthew Desmond

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

— Drew Brees