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'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims, ... This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit and now we have to help these victims.
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This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.
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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.
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I'm very concerned about people in Mississippi and Louisiana who have watched these storms the past two years hit Florida and Alabama and may have a little lackadaisical attitude toward this thing.
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in general, will show that this was a disaster of catastrophic proportions where communications were difficult at best, and communications were nonexistent at other times.
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I know that the media will be out in full force, on the ground, in boats, and in the air, but so will we,
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I knew in my gut this was the bad one.
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The federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.... Now is not the time to be blaming.
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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 very hopeful this work-group meeting will get us into the homestretch so we can resolve outstanding issues.
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I never received specific requests for specific things that needed doing,
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I'm very excited to be joining Fulham and I'm looking forward to the challenges that this new opportunity brings.
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I need the American people to recognize how catastrophic this is, to be patient and to work with us.
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I'm happy to be called not a Rudy Giuliani ... a scapegoat ... if it means that FEMA that I knew when I came here is going to be able to be reborn.