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
coordinate country debate great help people policy prepare public true wants whether
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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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.
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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.
disaster possible quickly
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.
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This was a catastrophic disaster, and in every disaster, there are mistakes, and it's not always smooth and pretty. I'm at ease knowing I was doing everything I could.
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Everybody else knew and clearly on our conference calls it was being discussed.
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Unfortunately, he called me 'Brownie' at the wrong time. Thanks a lot, sir.