William Jefferson
William Jefferson
billion number talk
I think it is unrealistic to appropriate $10 billion, $30 billion at a time, ... It's important to talk about the big number up front.
left orleans people poor
If these people hadn't been poor and black, they wouldn't have been left in New Orleans in the first place.
including orleans
the southeastern parishes including the New Orleans Metropolitan area.
damage early hope powerful worried
I was worried early on in the process. My hope is that it isn't powerful enough to do the damage it could do if it were open-ended.
condition curious everybody family sure
I was intending to go to my neighborhood for sure if I could get there. I didn't know what the condition was, ... I was curious to know and everybody in my family was curious to know: What was the condition of our house? Was it underwater? Was it looted?
desperate fact left people poor response rest situation time
The response time and all of the rest of it -- I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that people are black. It has to do with the fact that people are poor and desperate and left in a situation where they didn't have a way out,