Jay Lapeyre Quotations

Now, the attitude is you have to do what's good for this city and not just what's good for my business or deal.

No business is going to come here unless we create the right kind of environment.

Fragmented boards can't have the expertise needed to review the Army Corps of Engineers plans for the levee system nor the clout to hold them accountable. Multiple boards cannot be part of a cohesive solution for the region. It is also reasonable to expect that a single board is going to be more efficient and cost effective yielding greater results everywhere for everyone.

If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smokescreen.

I see an explosion in grass-roots initiative where people just want change and they're truly demanding it.

It demonstrates the politically elite will fight to obstruct reform in order to protect their backroom property tax deals.

(Voters) wish there were an election right now.

The question isn't whether New Orleans is going to take a huge hit in terms of job loss. The real question is where we'll have to rebuild from once we know where we've bottomed out.

This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.

If the legislators are listening to their constituents and their conscience, they will vote for a single levee board of qualified professionals. If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smoke screen.