276 Quotes by Michael Chertoff

We have to have seamless interaction with military forces, ... Mike Brown has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to this unprecedented challenge. I appreciate his work, as does everybody here.

It's as if an atomic bomb was dropped,

It's going to be in the hundreds, ... probably way too low.

Don has the leadership, ideas and optimism that the residents of the Gulf Coast Region deserve,

Then first stage is, of course, life saving, ... We've made a lot of progress in that respect.

That's one of the issues we have to look at.

The best principle is not only to fight the last battle, ... In July we talked a lot about subways. In September we talked a lot about hurricanes. We still need to talk about aviation, about avian flu.

That is unacceptable and we are going to change that immediately.

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there’s some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.