At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

I am so fortunate that I have a 12-year-old back home safe and without harm when the possibilities were very real that (it) could have been a very different ending.

There are two types of power. Organized money and organized people.

Before (Hurricane Katrina), voting was the last thing on their agenda. People trusted politicians to take care of them. It's not happening like this now. Whoever is running (for city office), they are not going to just walk in. We have a short time to do something really awesome.

There's nothing going on to help people in Louisiana right now.

People think people got money and people getting on with their lives. This is where we are.