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're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.
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I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. I just couldn't pull that off.
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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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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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