More - Michael Brown Quotes

FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours,

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I can tell you everyone involved in that videotape and in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff, our concern was always the breach of the levees.

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This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system.

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It is inherently impractical, totally impractical, for the federal government to respond to every disaster of whatever size in every community across the country,

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 Disaster

Clearly the evidence is there that we have young people under the age of 21 routinely buying alcohol in our bars. Let's be realistic about it, and that's not good. When you get to be 21 then you can be an adult and you can drink responsibly and be an adult. But right now we don't need to have people under 21 in bars.

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 Age And Aging

I'm happy to be called not a Rudy Giuliani ... a scapegoat ... if it means that FEMA that I knew when I came here is going to be able to be reborn.

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We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

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The total lack of communication. The inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was occurring there, ... We had to actually take teams out yesterday because of the dangerous situation they were in. That's very frustrating not only to me but those teams. Those medical teams want to help save lives and the thugs and the others that are causing the problem are actually making it more difficult. So we had to pull them out for a while. They want to go back in. They're going back in.

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 Communication

Government does have the right to take properties under eminent domain with caution and responsibility. In this case the tenant had gone out of business and abandoned the property. It is not right for them to get money because they breached the lease.

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 Caution

The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,

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