Michael Brown People Quotations

There is no other government agency that reaches people in a more direct way, ... It has been the best job in the world to help Americans in their darkest hours.

We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.

We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.

We're not a first responder agency. We're there to coordinate and help people prepare and coordinate in times of disaster. And so if the country wants us to be more, then we should have a great public policy debate whether that's true or not,

People were getting homes, jobs - everybody was getting served one way or another.

People want to lash out at me. People want to lash out at FEMA, I say that's fine. Just lash out that's fine, because my job is to continue to save lives, my job is to continue to save people and I'm going to do that.

this was not people choosing to stay in their beach homes.

I think the important thing to remember is in emergency management you prepare for the worst. Whether there had been a breach or topping of the levees you still need to be getting rescue people in there immediately.

I think everyone in the country needs to take a big, collective, deep breath and recognize that there are a lot of people in this state, in Mississippi and Alabama who are living under conditions that, quite frankly, I doubt any reporter in this room is living under -- no food, no water, it's hot, it's sticky, their homes have been destroyed, they don't know where they're going to go next.

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

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.

We are seeing people we didn't know exist

We can take care of our own people, ... and we're going to do that. I understand their frustration. I understand these people are suffering, and I'm telling you we're doing absolutely everything we can to make sure we take care of them.

Brian, it's an absolutely fair question... The federal government just learned about those people today.

CRU was designed for the spiritually curious and the religiously restless. There are many people who would consider themselves a part of CRU.

And while my heart goes out to people on fixed incomes, it is primarily a state and local responsibility. And in my opinion, it's the responsibility of faith-based organizations, of churches and charities and others, to help those people.

I understand their frustration and I understand these people are suffering, we are doing everything we can to make sure we take care of them.

I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,

The worst impact was down in North Carolina along the Outer Banks, ... We've had 4,000 people or so who didn't evacuate; a lot of building collapses, urban search-and-rescue teams in there.

Something that most people may not realize is that more than 50 percent of the deaths in a hurricane occur because of flooding, and right now the entire Eastern Seaboard -- all the way from North Carolina up through New Jersey and New York -- the ground is just saturated.

As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?

That's why I now have complete cooperation from the military, ... I have everything I need to ramp this up and do what we have to do to secure New Orleans, to take this urban area and make certain it's secure, get people out of here, and start the recovery process.

It's a perspective that very few people have.

It's not mean-spirited humor, it's just good satire. I go in with my eyes open that they will do whatever they can to make fun of me. But I hope people see I'm human and a decent guy.

That's something we need to look at because, ... when you have 100,000 folks that either can't get out, they don't have the transportation, we need to work with the cities to make certain there's a way to get those people out or at least put them in areas that can be safe.

The federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.... Now is not the time to be blaming.

I'm very concerned about people in Mississippi and Louisiana who have watched these storms the past two years hit Florida and Alabama and may have a little lackadaisical attitude toward this thing.

I need the American people to recognize how catastrophic this is, to be patient and to work with us.

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.