“When their welfare check doesn't arrive by the first of the month and they run out of baby formula, they borrow from a neighbor, ... If you say they have to move, they not only have to rebuild the physical structure of their lives, but they have to put together something much more complicated, which are these networks.”
“With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.”