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 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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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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We can take care of our own people, ... and we're going to do that. I understand their frustration. I understand these people are suffering, and I'm telling you we're doing absolutely everything we can to make sure we take care of them.
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We are seeing people we didn't know exist
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We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.
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We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.
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We're not a first responder agency. We're there to coordinate and help people prepare and coordinate in times of disaster. And so if the country wants us to be more, then we should have a great public policy debate whether that's true or not,
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There is no other government agency that reaches people in a more direct way, ... It has been the best job in the world to help Americans in their darkest hours.
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this was not people choosing to stay in their beach homes.
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Brian, it's an absolutely fair question... The federal government just learned about those people today.
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People were getting homes, jobs - everybody was getting served one way or another.
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People want to lash out at me. People want to lash out at FEMA, I say that's fine. Just lash out that's fine, because my job is to continue to save lives, my job is to continue to save people and I'm going to do that.
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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.