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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Today I resigned as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ... As I told the president, it is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.
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Brian, it's an absolutely fair question... The federal government just learned about those people today.
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Yes, I learned about that, the federal government learned about that (Thursday), ... And that shows how difficult communications are in the situation where there was virtually no communications, except for our teams on the ground.
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Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.
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At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.'
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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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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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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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just assumed that agencies would follow up on taskings resulting from the calls.
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I think everyone in the country needs to take a big, collective, deep breath and recognize that there are a lot of people in this state, in Mississippi and Alabama who are living under conditions that, quite frankly, I doubt any reporter in this room is living under -- no food, no water, it's hot, it's sticky, their homes have been destroyed, they don't know where they're going to go next.
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People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.
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We're bringing in food, water, and the medical teams and urban search-and-rescue teams to have a massive response.
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I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.
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Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.