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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My obligation was to the White House and to make certain that the president understood what was going on and what the situation was. And I did that.
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My point is that the court made a mistake in their analysis. The distinctions in the case were misunderstood and misapplied.
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I won't say that we will implementing every one as they have recommended, but I think their recommendations are sound. Chief Lovett and I will be implementing those. We don't agree with every one.
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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 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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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.
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I find it a little disingenuous. For them to claim that we didn't have awareness of it is just baloney.
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I can't emphasize enough to viewers how serious FEMA is taking this storm. We've done a lot of planning for a hurricane striking New Orleans because of New Orleans lying below sea level.
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I can tell you everyone involved in that videotape and in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff, our concern was always the breach of the levees.
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Given that these two businesses have very different financial models and compete in different market environments, they represent two distinct investment opportunities for shareholders,
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I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That isn't happening.
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I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could ... that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do everything they humanly could to respond to this. Because I knew in my gut this was the bad one.
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Go ahead and do it. I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me.
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If the data suggests we need to go further, we will.