“The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. C...” — Ray Nagin Quote

“The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.”

“This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.”

“I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.”

“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.”

“Most people depend on a lot of other people.”

“Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.”