Michael Chertoff Prepared Quotations

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

We're hiring as rapidly as we can, and we're prepared to bring all the resources.

I think that the lesson of this hurricane, which we will clearly look at as we go over an after-action evaluation, is going to be very valuable in moving forward. I mean, this was an ultra-catastrophe, but we have to be prepared even for ultra-catastrophes, even things that happen once in a lifetime and once in a generation. So, yes, we will be studying that.

We were prepared for one catastrophe. The second catastrophe, frankly, added a level of challenge that no one has seen before.

We were prepared for one catastrophe, ... The second catastrophe, frankly, added a level of challenge that no one has seen before.

We're going to be better prepared for this hurricane season than any other prior year.