Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoffis an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush andBarack Obama, and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth28 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers, and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.
I'll tell you something I said a month ago before this (Katrina) happened. I said that I thought we need to build a preparedness capacity going forward that we have not yet succeeded in doing.
I'll tell you something I said a month ago before this (Katrina) happened,
I hope that by doing what the state officials and mayors are doing now, are getting people who are invalids out of the way, encouraging people to leave early, that when the storm hits, there will be property damage but hopefully there won't be a lot of people to rescue,
I have to say, in honesty, patience will be required for everybody, ... Under the best circumstances, even in the best planning, you still confront the physical reality of a destructive storm.
If there are contracts that turn out to be not properly cost effective or inappropriate in some other way, we can redo the contracts; we can renegotiate those contracts,
I want to have the people who are present here on the ground
once and for all .Ê.Ê. rather than simply going out and buying a lot of newfangled gadgets.
once and for all . . . rather than simply going out and buying a lot of newfangled gadgets.
Chief Paulison has over 30 years of experience in emergency management, working his way up the ranks from firefighter to chief of the Miami-Dade County fire and rescue department,
By all measures, Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster that FEMA has ever been called upon to support, ... Although FEMA pre-positioned significant numbers of personnel, assets and resources before the hurricane made landfall, we now know its capabilities were simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of this storm.
By the end of this year our department anticipates issuing a new inexpensive secure travel card for land border crossings.
Great nations, like good people, keep their word,
I define control to mean that we will have an extremely high probability of detecting, responding to and interdicting illegal crossings of our borders.