Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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I think the important thing to remember is in emergency management you prepare for the worst. Whether there had been a breach or topping of the levees you still need to be getting rescue people in there immediately.
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It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.
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It is inherently impractical, totally impractical, for the federal government to respond to every disaster of whatever size in every community across the country,
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For a long time we've wondered why there is methane in the atmosphere of Titan at all, and the answer is that is spews out of the surface,
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It shows at a minimum, for a disaster like that, you don't always have the best information,
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It's been very, very stressful obviously to be called a scapegoat, I know in my heart what I was doing, what I was trying to do and the tapes speak for themselves.
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The federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.... Now is not the time to be blaming.
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I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims, ... This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit and now we have to help these victims.
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I just find it difficult to believe that we're not meeting a need if that need has been articulated to us. ... I think that must be getting lost in the chain of command there.
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We believe this decision is in the best interest of our shareholders, customers and employees since it will allow us to create a stronger company and one better able to take advantage of the opportunities in all our business segments,
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He's very engaged, and he's asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask. I say that only because I want everyone to recognize ... how serious the situation remains.
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St. Bernard represents one of the big problems down there, which is that the needs of smaller communities are getting lost in the maze of federal red tape and placed behind those of larger communities, such as New Orleans.
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My obligation was to the White House and to make certain that the president understood what was going on and what the situation was. And I did that.
I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.