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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To think that you could actually find something in our own solar system bigger than anything that had been seen in 150 years, just is sort of an amazing prospect.
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Unfortunately, he called me 'Brownie' at the wrong time. Thanks a lot, sir.
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Expect a call from HQ regarding Bay St. Louis. CNN is asking where's FEMA. Would like to air drop or do something there.
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(It's) very difficult for a family to go through this; you never expect that you will be a part of this.
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It's not mean-spirited humor, it's just good satire. I go in with my eyes open that they will do whatever they can to make fun of me. But I hope people see I'm human and a decent guy.
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For a long time we've wondered why there is methane in the atmosphere of Titan at all, and the answer is that is spews out of the surface,
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It sounds like they're just re-creating the wheel and making it look like they're calling for change. If indeed that's all they're doing, they owe more than that to the American public.
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considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well.
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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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It's been very, very stressful obviously to be called a scapegoat, I know in my heart what I was doing, what I was trying to do and the tapes speak for themselves.
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I've got to tell you my gut hurts on this one. It hurts. I've got cramps. So we need to take this one very, very seriously.
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It shows at a minimum, for a disaster like that, you don't always have the best information,