284 ordspråk av Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff
It is going to be about as ugly a scene as we've witnessed in this country, with the possible exception of 9/11,
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It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.
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It is going to be an unhappy number,
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It was midday Tuesday that I became aware of the fact that there was no possibility of plugging the gap and that essentially the lake was going to start to drain into the city. I think that second catastrophe really caught everybody by surprise,
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It was you, ... It was always you.
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It would be enormously difficult if we were to attempt to control illegal immigration at the border without having some legal avenue to address the fact that there is a high demand for non-U.S. people to come in and perform certain kinds of jobs,
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It would take billions and billions of dollars to do it,
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It's as if an atomic bomb was dropped,
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It's going to be in the hundreds, ... probably way too low.
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It's important as we bring this system forward that we make sure supervisors are properly educated and trained in what it means to evaluate performance. . . . We have to assure people that we're going to have adequate feedback, that there's going to be a system of making [pay and performance] determinations that is fair and transparent.
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It's important to allow the new people who have the responsibility ... to have access to the information we need to do better, ... We don't want to sacrifice the real ability to get a full picture of Mike's experiences; we don't want to sacrifice that ability simply in order to make an image point.
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It's really all hands on deck to deal with this storm,
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Just two weeks out from Hurricane Katrina, improvements in communication and coordination between levels of government were already evident, ... But that is only one step in ensuring that we identify the lessons learned from Katrina and make the necessary adjustments.
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Katrina was a crash course in things that worked well and didn't work well.
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last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials did a simulated Hurricane Pam in which the levees broke. ... Thousands drowned.
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