284 ordspråk av Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff
 I don't endorse those views, ... I know the city was totally overwhelmed. My own view is I have to get my own house in order. That's what I'm focused on. |
| I don't think there's a lack of a sense of urgency, |
| I don't want to be FEMA director, |
| I have directed Mike Brown to return to administering FEMA nationally, |
| I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water. |
| I have to say, in honesty, patience will be required for everybody, ... Under the best circumstances, even in the best planning, you still confront the physical reality of a destructive storm. |
| I hope that by doing what the state officials and mayors are doing now, are getting people who are invalids out of the way, encouraging people to leave early, that when the storm hits, there will be property damage but hopefully there won't be a lot of people to rescue, |
| I knew I became more involved in operational matters than I would normally expect to be or want to be, given the fact that I had a battlefield commander on the ground, ... I am not a hurricane expert. I've got to rely on people to execute the details of the plan. |
| I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers, and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet. |
| I still don't have the full story about why some things weren't moving, and I look forward to having the answer to that, |
| I think it would be hugely, hugely difficult to do this, |
| I think that that predication unhappily turned out to be correct and one of the things I said was we're racing the clock. Unfortunately, the hurricane beat us, |
| 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. |
| I think that was a bad idea, and I directed it not to happen again, |
| I think the American public is rightly distressed about a situation in which they feel we do not have proper control over our borders, ... We need to have a comprehensive solution and one that really will work. |
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