Michael Brown Quotes

"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."

"I'm concerned about ... their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"They're a good team -- there's no doubt about that -- but there were a few things that we could have done that would have changed some things,"

"Mike will be working across a number of programs within Australian cricket with his area of expertise in fielding and throwing."

"We kept telling the team they were playing off emotion and we knew that would wear off."

"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."

"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."

"This is a community that's in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year, ... If we don't use this power, cities will die."

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

"I find it a little disingenuous. For them to claim that we didn't have awareness of it is just baloney."

"considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well."

"the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there."