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 understand their frustration and I understand these people are suffering, we are doing everything we can to make sure we take care of them.
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I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,
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The worst impact was down in North Carolina along the Outer Banks, ... We've had 4,000 people or so who didn't evacuate; a lot of building collapses, urban search-and-rescue teams in there.
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CRU was designed for the spiritually curious and the religiously restless. There are many people who would consider themselves a part of CRU.
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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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Brian, it's an absolutely fair question... The federal government just learned about those people today.
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I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.
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People were getting homes, jobs - everybody was getting served one way or another.
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People want to lash out at me. People want to lash out at FEMA, I say that's fine. Just lash out that's fine, because my job is to continue to save lives, my job is to continue to save people and I'm going to do that.
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We can take care of our own people, ... and we're going to do that. I understand their frustration. I understand these people are suffering, and I'm telling you we're doing absolutely everything we can to make sure we take care of them.
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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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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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It's a perspective that very few people have.
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We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.