We now have a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the city of New Orleans.

[New Orleans] basically sits like a bowl, and most of the city is under sea level ... so if we get a storm like Ivan to hit us directly

One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked about New Orleans, let's enhance it. Everything you dreamed about and wished New Orleans had, let's make it happen,

New Orleans is not asking for a handout; we're asking for a hand up,

[Any rebuilding plan, specialists say, should take New Orleans' topography and frequent rains into account.] You can bring the city back without making it any safer, ... You want to avoid that.