Ray Nagin
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Clarence Ray Nagin (born June 11, 1956 in New Orleans) is the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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- They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.
- Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005[1]
- I don't know whether it's the governor's problem, or it's the president's problem, but somebody needs to get ... on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out right now.
- Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005
- They thinking small, man, and this is a major, major deal.
- Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005
- Get off your asses and let's do something.
- Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005
- There's way too many frickin' -- excuse me -- cooks in the kitchen.
- Interview with WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, August 31, 2005[2]
- I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses. Get every dog-gone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans ... This is a major, major, major deal. I can't emphasize that enough."
- Television Interview, September 2, 2005 [3]
- I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.
- Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden[4]
- You know, I'm sure I could have done a lot of things much better, but I will tell you this, Tim: I was there.
- Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden
- I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.
- Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden
- As we think about rebuilding New Orleans, surely, God is mad at America. He's sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroying and putting stress on this country. Surely, he's not approval [sic] of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But, surely, he is upset at black America, also.
- Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service [5]
- It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans — the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.
- Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service [6]
- You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about.
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- The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.
- Attributed by Mayors Climate Protection Agreement site
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