Michael Brown Federal Quotations

Today I resigned as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ... As I told the president, it is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.

St. Bernard represents one of the big problems down there, which is that the needs of smaller communities are getting lost in the maze of federal red tape and placed behind those of larger communities, such as New Orleans.

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

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

Yes, I learned about that, the federal government learned about that (Thursday), ... And that shows how difficult communications are in the situation where there was virtually no communications, except for our teams on the ground.

Brian, it's an absolutely fair question... The federal government just learned about those people today.

At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.'

The federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.... Now is not the time to be blaming.