220 Quotes by Michael Brown

It's not mean-spirited humor, it's just good satire. I go in with my eyes open that they will do whatever they can to make fun of me. But I hope people see I'm human and a decent guy.

I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.

For a long time we've wondered why there is methane in the atmosphere of Titan at all, and the answer is that is spews out of the surface,

I think the important thing to remember is in emergency management you prepare for the worst. Whether there had been a breach or topping of the levees you still need to be getting rescue people in there immediately.

It shows at a minimum, for a disaster like that, you don't always have the best information,

I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.

It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.

It sounds like they're just re-creating the wheel and making it look like they're calling for change. If indeed that's all they're doing, they owe more than that to the American public.

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