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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I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. I just couldn't pull that off.
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These demonstrate weaknesses in management and must be addressed as a matter of good practice.
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the single largest mobilization of emergency response and recovery resources in history.
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The supply and demand balance just doesn't exist right now. I've been looking at the listing services to see where the market might be headed but there's no consistency.
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Certainly the sheriff has a right to endorse any candidate.
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He's very engaged, and he's asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask. I say that only because I want everyone to recognize ... how serious the situation remains.
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He told me he was in his hotel, had chest pains, the normal symptoms. The hotel arranged for an ambulance to come.
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He's walking in at a very difficult time.
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And that's one of the things that I think we need to go back and find out, because I was sounding those alarm bells, and to this day I'm incredibly frustrated that we didn't move and could not move things faster.
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I hope his physical strength and all will help him deal with whatever heart issues he has.
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I pray to God we don't see those numbers. My gut is ... we don't. But we just don't know.
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I probably should have just resigned my post earlier and gone public with some of these things.
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I hope to give them some publicity about the plight they're facing right now. They're in difficult straits right now.
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I'm sure it caused some delay. I think the public needs to know there was some confusion, that we had reports earlier in the day of a breach.