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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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 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.
I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.
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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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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.
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I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.
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He's a very busy person and that has always concerned me, that his schedule and his activities were very heavy.
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His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.
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I absolutely resent you saying I didn't have leadership.
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this was not people choosing to stay in their beach homes.
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What do you want me to say? I have admitted to mistakes publicly. I've admitted to mistakes in hearings. What more, Senator Coleman, do you want from me?
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What makes the project unique is that the replay artists have the ability to do this after the play. Camera angles do not have to be chosen in advance. All camera angles are saved and can be viewed from up to 72 synchronized views when the action is complete. Nothing is missed.
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Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.