#new orleans

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#been #could #deaths #devastation #disaster

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#city #enjoyed #every #new #new orleans

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cuisine #new #new orleans #orleans #rather

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#confederacy #dunces #i #i think #new

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#creatively #great #i #new #new orleans

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#better #certain #find #i #i believe

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#again #areas #attention #coastal #country

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#because #better #city #common #could

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 behind. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#anybody #behind #city #going #great

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#bottom #choose #get #gotten #mind