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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We didn't hear it open, didn't hear him screaming. I guess he rolled over him. We didn't feel a bump or anything. The kids said the door was open. I looked, and he wasn't back there.
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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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I hope his physical strength and all will help him deal with whatever heart issues he has.
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And while my heart goes out to people on fixed incomes, it is primarily a state and local responsibility. And in my opinion, it's the responsibility of faith-based organizations, of churches and charities and others, to help those people.
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The total lack of communication. The inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was occurring there, ... We had to actually take teams out yesterday because of the dangerous situation they were in. That's very frustrating not only to me but those teams. Those medical teams want to help save lives and the thugs and the others that are causing the problem are actually making it more difficult. So we had to pull them out for a while. They want to go back in. They're going back in.
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the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there.
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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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There are lots of contests that give away prizes and money, but we wanted a contest that would change someone's life.
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We've got to come in as quickly as possible and do what we can to avert another disaster.
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Without the bar district, they'll be no more Irish Weekends. It would be a crime to see that tradition end.
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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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We kept telling the team they were playing off emotion and we knew that would wear off.
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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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This was a catastrophic disaster, and in very disaster, there are mistakes, and it's not always smooth and pretty.