25 Quotes by Russ Knocke

Our undivided attention is placed on the victims of this catastrophe and seeing that they get the help that they desperately need. There is going to be a time and a place for the government and no doubt for Congress and the administration to really take a careful look at where the missteps were and assign blame.

We are not talking about DOD taking over federal response efforts to a catastrophe from start to finish,

We'd like to get to the point where we're not just training people and releasing them.

We are encouraging those states that want to work with us.

We're talking about an ultra-catastrophe, where the need is such that the military's training and assets would meet an immediate need in support of Homeland Security coordination of the federal government's responsibility and recovery efforts,

While the situation in the Superdome was nightmarish and not satisfactory to anyone involved, it was not a life-and-death situation and we had to focus our priorities where we could,

We've had a regular dialogue with first responders and discussed some of these issues with them. We're clearly an all hazards department and have taken significant measures to enhance preparedness and recovery capability since Sept. 11.

there is no indication of any nexus to terror.

We were racing against the clock and now it's clear the clock beat us.