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 see them picking up the trees, but it's the garbage we need to get picked up now.
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I serve totally at the will of the president.
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I understand their frustration and I understand these people are suffering, we are doing everything we can to make sure we take care of them.
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I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,
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I understand people's frustrations. This has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster and so, we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
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These demonstrate weaknesses in management and must be addressed as a matter of good practice.
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the single largest mobilization of emergency response and recovery resources in history.
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The supply and demand balance just doesn't exist right now. I've been looking at the listing services to see where the market might be headed but there's no consistency.
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Prior to working as the head of FEMA, I was in charge of horse shows. I know that if you leave alcohol around large, warm-blooded mammals, the results are never pretty. We had to move quickly.
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CRU was designed for the spiritually curious and the religiously restless. There are many people who would consider themselves a part of CRU.
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And while my heart goes out to people on fixed incomes, it is primarily a state and local responsibility. And in my opinion, it's the responsibility of faith-based organizations, of churches and charities and others, to help those people.
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empower hurricane survivors to really start rebuilding their lives.
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Even as progress is being made, we know that victims are still out there and we are working tirelessly to bring them the help they need.
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The worst impact was down in North Carolina along the Outer Banks, ... We've had 4,000 people or so who didn't evacuate; a lot of building collapses, urban search-and-rescue teams in there.