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25 quotes by Michael Chertoff

Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005. Since leaving government...
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But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100... →

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Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We... →

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The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're... →

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We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're... →

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And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid... →

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And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing... →

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And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going... →

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Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an... →

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Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because... →

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So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better... →

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We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in... →

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Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane... →

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And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't... →

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