29 Quotes by Frances Townsend

It was bin Laden who decided that it should just focus on the East Coast, and that the West Coast should be held in abeyance ... as a follow-on attack. It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time.

It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time.

the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of domestic incident management activities of all departments and agencies in the event of a terrorist threat, and during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, major disasters, or other emergencies, within the United States.

It turns out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated,

It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee.

If you have integrated the National Guard and active duty forces this shouldn't be an issue.

In response to Hurricane Katrina, the National Response Plan came up short. We need to rewrite the NRP so it is workable and so it is clear.

I reject outright the suggestion that president Bush was anything less than fully involved.

I haven't presumed that there needs to be a revision of the Stafford or Insurrection Act,