We would really encourage people not to come back [to New Orleans] for at least a week.

They should have been monitoring this and informed people all the way to the top, then they should have warned people.

For people to feel confident about coming back again, they're going to have to rebuild the levee system.

The bottom line I got out of this is that unless you were a lobbyist, they did not want you to participate.

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.