Quotes by '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...

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certainly fema fill level ranks senior terms

We certainly have to fill out the ranks of FEMA in terms of its senior level with experienced staff.

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I have directed Mike Brown to return to administering FEMA nationally,

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One of the first things we must do is retool FEMA and enhance this vital agency's capabilities so that it can fulfill its historic and critical mission of supporting response and recovery,

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willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.

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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.

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We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.

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FEMA is moving supplies and equipment into the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible,

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FEMA has better resources and ... it brings more to the table now than it did in the previous five, six, seven years.

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I appreciate his willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.

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There are a lot of things that didn't work well. We are not where we need to be as a nation in the area of preparedness.

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While it is very important to focus an enormous amount of attention and effort on what is going on here, we can't afford to let our guard down in respect to other threats that might happen,

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There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight.

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We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

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We urge all Americans to take some simple steps to prepare for emergencies, including getting an emergency supply kit, making a family emergency plan and learning more about how to respond to emergencies that could affect your area,

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