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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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 why I now have complete cooperation from the military, ... I have everything I need to ramp this up and do what we have to do to secure New Orleans, to take this urban area and make certain it's secure, get people out of here, and start the recovery process.
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There is a certain anarchist strain running through the Internet that questions, 'Why shouldn't everything belong to everyone?
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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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We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,
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We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.
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We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.
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We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.
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We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.
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We're not a first responder agency. We're there to coordinate and help people prepare and coordinate in times of disaster. And so if the country wants us to be more, then we should have a great public policy debate whether that's true or not,
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We've already started calling in additional troops that we have available to us like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, ... We have plenty of resources, plenty of people.