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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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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We've got to give good effort but also do the right thing.
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Today I resigned as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ... As I told the president, it is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.
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Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.
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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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He wasn't just a fire chief, he was a very good man, a spiritual person, very thoughtful. He certainly deserves this and, as the the mayor says, this is a person who came from the community and came all the way through this department to make it to chief.
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He was acting irrationally. He was acting in a rage, an explosive rage.
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He liked to get into a lot of stuff. When I think about him, I think of his smile and his hair.
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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.