Michael Brown Disaster Quotations

in general, will show that this was a disaster of catastrophic proportions where communications were difficult at best, and communications were nonexistent at other times.

This was a catastrophic disaster, and in very disaster, there are mistakes, and it's not always smooth and pretty.

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.

I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims, ... This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit and now we have to help these victims.

People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.

I understand people's frustrations. This has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster and so, we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.

It shows at a minimum, for a disaster like that, you don't always have the best information,

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.

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

When I became the director of FEMA a couple of years ago, I decided it was time we did some really serious catastrophic disaster planning. So the president gave me money through our budget to do that. And we went around the country to figure out what's the best model we can do for a catastrophic disaster in this country? And we picked New Orleans, Louisiana.

There was a cultural clash that didn't recognize the absolute inherent science of preparing for a disaster. Any time you break that cycle ... you're doomed to failure.

We've got to come in as quickly as possible and do what we can to avert another disaster.

This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall,