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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It's a perspective that very few people have.
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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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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.
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This is truly a catastrophic event, ... Larry King Live.
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They're a good team -- there's no doubt about that -- but there were a few things that we could have done that would have changed some things,
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They're not taking patients out of hospitals, taking prisoners out of prisons and they're leaving hotels open in downtown New Orleans. So I'm very concerned about that.
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That's something we need to look at because, ... when you have 100,000 folks that either can't get out, they don't have the transportation, we need to work with the cities to make certain there's a way to get those people out or at least put them in areas that can be safe.
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That's a generic rule. I don't know if it applies to Bush,
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They were aware of what was going on.
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They will be processed as rapidly as possible.
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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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As we entered this quarter, we expected desktop units to be relatively flat, with revenue down sequentially due to continued pricing pressures, ... However, pricing pressures have been more severe than expected, with the sequential rate of price decline roughly double that of the prior two quarters.