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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empower hurricane survivors to really start rebuilding their lives.
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As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?
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That's why I now have complete cooperation from the military, ... I have everything I need to ramp this up and do what we have to do to secure New Orleans, to take this urban area and make certain it's secure, get people out of here, and start the recovery process.
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The concept is to get them some cash in hand which allows them, empowers them, to make their own decisions about what do they need to have to start rebuilding.
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a great way to ... empower these hurricane survivors to really start rebuilding their lives.
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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.
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Man, 54 years old, and I've never had a whipping like this in my life.
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I'm hoping they get serious about evacuating New Orleans,
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I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One. He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches.