Ray Nagin
Ray Nagin
Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr., also known as C. Ray Nagin, previously served as the 60th mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana from 2002 to 2010. A Democrat, Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 June 1956
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing, and people started moving, ... I give the president some credit on this. He sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done.
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I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I have supported some Republicans. I'm all about results, man. If somebody can deliver, that's where I'm gonna go. It's about who can get the job done.
city four laid pushed result timeline weeks
I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It's probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this,
We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.
leave mandatory open prone today
Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.
ground higher people state supplies
Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,
people trapped
We had people trapped on roofs, et cetera ... and they didn't know about it? That's just impossible.
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We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.
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Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked about New Orleans, let's enhance it. Everything you dreamed about and wished New Orleans had, let's make it happen,
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everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing.
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At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.
believe truth
At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.
people
When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.
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There have been too many people who have said we were dead. There were too many people who said we were way too divisive. There were too many people who thought this city should go in a different direction. But the people, the people have said they like the direction we're going in and we have run number one today.