Michael Brown Knew Quotations

I was still worried about it, because I knew what the potential was. But I think the president was speaking honestly at that point that he didn't really anticipate that they would be breached because of all this conflicting information.

I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could ... that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do everything they humanly could to respond to this. Because I knew in my gut this was the bad one.

We kept telling the team they were playing off emotion and we knew that would wear off.

Everybody else knew and clearly on our conference calls it was being discussed.

I knew in my gut this was the bad one.

I'm happy to be called not a Rudy Giuliani ... a scapegoat ... if it means that FEMA that I knew when I came here is going to be able to be reborn.

We were prepared but overwhelmed is the best way I can put it. We knew what to do. We knew how to do it. But because we're stretched thin, because we still had these logistical problems, it quickly overwhelmed us.