Christopher Morris Quotations

Galveston was the biggest city in Texas and second to New Orleans as the most important port on the Gulf Coast, ... The city started rebuilding right away, but was unable to convince investors to invest in Galveston. Now, it's just a town for tourists. That hurricane is the reason that Houston is the biggest city in Texas now.

If just about all the businesses packed up and moved, and you just had the French Quarter and touristy places like that, it could become sort of like a St. Augustine - a small town for tourists, ... It wouldn't be a city anymore. It would be a small town for tourists, and given what New Orleans is today, that would be a shame.

They need to figure out where the people who work in the restaurants and the kitchens and cleaning restrooms are going to live. People who have low-paying jobs are absolutely essential to the economy of New Orleans, and they won't be able to chase them away and rebuild the economy.

It wasn't much of a house to begin with. At the time it was affordable for me,

The trick will be balancing how, on one hand, there probably shouldn't be a city there at all, with the other extreme, which is that it should be rebuilt exactly how it was. Most people, including myself, think it should be somewhere in between. I think the happy medium could be rethinking flood control, making the city more secure than it is now, but making it so that some areas outside the city, some of the marshy, rural areas, are just left to nature.