29 Quotes by Frances Townsend

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    We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

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    FedEx can track a package around the world anywhere, real time. The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be able to do the same with ice, water and food.

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    I should make clear from the outset that we do not know if the bird virus we are seeing overseas will ever become ... a pandemic.

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    It was the president who acknowledged the response to Hurricane Katrina was insufficient, and it was the president who first sought the lessons learned.

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    Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in the Patriot Act the mention of library records.

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    As you know, President Bush was highly engaged in the preparation and response effort, beginning when Katrina was a tropical storm off the coast of Florida.

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