Michael Chertoff Fema Quotations

One of the first things we must do is retool FEMA and enhance this vital agency's capabilities so that it can fulfill its historic and critical mission of supporting response and recovery,

I have directed Mike Brown to return to administering FEMA nationally,

willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.

We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.

FEMA has better resources and ... it brings more to the table now than it did in the previous five, six, seven years.

FEMA is moving supplies and equipment into the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible,

By all measures, Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster that FEMA has ever been called upon to support, ... Although FEMA pre-positioned significant numbers of personnel, assets and resources before the hurricane made landfall, we now know its capabilities were simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of this storm.

We certainly have to fill out the ranks of FEMA in terms of its senior level with experienced staff.

I appreciate his willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.