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I didn't expect the FEMA camp to be as organized and as helpful as they were. FEMA has taken a lot o...
LON LACK We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. ...
DEBBIE TOWER![]()
I intend to find out why the federal response, particularly the response of FEMA, was so incompetent...
MARY LANDRIEU I don't think this response can just be handled by FEMA and local units of government.
BENNIE THOMPSON FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, ... Natural di...
ALCEE HASTINGS FEMA would make preparations for those types of things, ... They have a Disaster Mortuary Operationa...
JOSEPH ALLEN We feel that we're very close to getting resolution and we are waiting for those policy memos from F...
GAVIN SMITH One of the first things we must do is retool FEMA and enhance this vital agency's capabilities so th...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF FEMA has lost its way. FEMA has been submerged in a sea of bureaucracy,
JOHN DINGELL We have had praise from one end of Louisiana to the other about Amateur Radio operators, ... There w...
GARY STRATTON FEMA has lost its way.
JOHN DINGELL Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of p...
GILBERTO MADAIL I think FEMA is stretched, but the response is good at this point. This storm did something very unp...
TODD HUNTER As far as what I got from FEMA? Headaches.
SHELBA BIMM Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.
DAVID LIEBERSBACH NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for ...
BILL DEDMAN![]()
It is not enough to remove Mr. Brown from the disaster scene, ... The individual in charge of FEMA m...
BARBARA BUSH I am concerned that FEMA is not ready and we'll see much of what we saw during Katrina, ... I've bee...
BENNIE THOMPSON![]()
Frankly, whatever assistance people get from FEMA will not have a lot of extras built into it, so th...
GENE GREEN I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE![]()
I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.
MILO YIANNOPOULOS [But the effectiveness of the response to Katrina appears to diminish the higher you move up the cha...
TRENT LOTT We were expecting a plane of folks from FEMA, ... What we're doing now is working with families who ...
SHEILA ALLEN We haven't received any for quite a while. We haven't received any official FEMA evacuees other than...
BUDDY ROGERS I know the initial response from students is, they don't like it at all.
JULIUS JONES FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.
ROBERT LEBLANC They did a real good job that day - 911. That's why I'm sitting here like this today because of the ...
STEPHEN RAYMOND I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it...
RAY NAGIN If you've got $2,300 from FEMA and you're in San Francisco, you're in trouble.
BRIAN SULLIVAN We are just waiting for [the EC] to provide their response.
ARCH CURRID FEMA strongly recommends communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flooding...
DAVID MAURSTAD We have several other teams that have volunteered to go, that have not been asked for by FEMA,
DICK TAYLOR We have significantly improved preparedness capabilities for natural disasters and for acts of terro...
RUSS KNOCKE From where we were [Tuesday], the state has really stepped up. FEMA has stepped up.
KRISTIN JACOBS Although FEMA takes an ?all hazards' approach to both natural and man-made disasters, here in Region...
KAREN ARMES We're waiting on their (Highland's) response.
DARREN KECSKES We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At ...
JOHN HALL We intended to start a dialogue. We have been surprised by a lack of administration response.
KEVIN COOK We don't have any big numbers to report because of FEMA,
BRUCE HERTZKE They were real nice people. They hooked me up with FEMA. From the time that I got here it was beauti...
ROBERT BROWN It's difficult to understand the lack of preparedness and the ineffective response to something that...
SUSAN COLLINS We have still not received any response from North Korea.
YOSHINORI KATORI If we weren't prepared, and we didn't do our part, no amount of work by FEMA could overcome the lack...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY My role will be to coordinate all recovery efforts from making sure the city gets its FEMA reimburse...
ANTHONY MILLS If it wasn't for FEMA, I probably would have lost my mind.
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON FEMA does want to help pay for the cleanup.
DALE JOHNSON![]()
I appealed to them to rethink their positions. We are waiting for their response.
MOHAMED ELBARADEI The appointments work done by this president is as fine as has ever been done. And I believe that Mi...
CLAY JOHNSON III They have regret they got caught. Regret is an intellectual response, remorse is an effect emotional...
BRUCE PERRY We're waiting for their response so we can get cracking before Easter.
MARY THOMPSON We are certainly changing our approach. The guidance we have had from FEMA is you need to be able to...
RICHARD GRIFFIN He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.
IBRAHIM GAMBARI FEMA said no, because we have renter's insurance,
DENNIS JONES sincere response from the Chinese side.
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI We're hoping that we get a reprieve from FEMA, that FEMA will help us house these people a little lo...
MARK SMITH We may be asking for extensions of these deadlines based on market conditions and commitments previo...
BILL WHITE Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibil...
MIKE ROSS![]()
Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON (We) await the response from U.S. authorities over the request to question all of those under invest...
ARMANDO SPATARO We're just waiting for FEMA to give us the go-ahead, ... We have more than 1,000 manufactured homes ...
JENNIFER HALL We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.
ROBERT BLACK FEMA went from being a laughingstock to one of the most effective federal agencies we had, ... A lot...
BEVERLY CIGLER![]()
These natural and human tragedies provided the headline news; they also provoked a quite remarkable ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH We actually haven't had any repost of people saying that they have had any problems with FEMA; every...
DANA CONKLIN The FEMA Snow Job
JAMES BOVARD A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
DON ZIMMER FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw th...
BILL DEDMAN So far, we have a great response from the businesses and churches.
ANNETTE ZELLA FEMA strongly recommends that communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flo...
DAVID MAURSTAD We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..
SEAN MORAN If you were a disaster victim, you probably never met a FEMA employee. They were all [reservists].
GEORGE HADDOW![]()
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for...
AYN RAND As of now, no response from the public or business.
DAVE BOWMAN The response from local employers has been gratifying. We have a lot of fantastic companies attendin...
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM To be free from control is like to have a heavy cross to carry one moment then tossing it aside the ...
GARY F EVANS... We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.
SCOTT TERRY At this point, they (FEMA) don't have plans to move refugees anywhere other than where they are at t...
ERIC LAMOUREUX FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,
JOANNA GONZALEZ [Lawmakers blistered former FEMA chief Michael Brown for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina ...
KAY GRANGER From the very beginning, '60 Minutes' was clear that the only response they would take to this story...
JAY CARSON The response has been great, even from smokers.
PETER HAMELIN![]()
required an immediate response from the European Union.
DAVID BYRNE The response from the community has been phenomenal.
LAWRIE MANTWELL All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to resu...
RICHARD AXEL Better to start small, and do that well. We got more response from the press release [in January] th...
HUGH FORREST I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our o...
HANNIBAL but we were told Friday that they [FEMA] had put $39 million in the bank.
FRANK MICHEL![]()
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fire...
MARY LANDRIEU positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the tu...
GIDEON GONO positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the tu...
GIDEON GONO Unless FEMA has a direct line to the president, the people of Hawaii and the nation are at risk. FEM...
DANIEL AKAKA As long as you require the FEMA director to go through two and three levels of bureaucracy to get a ...
GEN. JULIUS BECTON This payment has been made following a positive response from some of our exporters and holders of f...
GIDEON GONO As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state em...
LEO BOSNER I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.
MICHAEL BROWN![]()
An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting ...
ROBERT WOODROW WILSON When someone in vulnerability tells you everything they’ve known has fallen apart, the correct res...
MIKE MCHARGUE [FEMA got] people who needed critical care ... Children all the way to the elderly.
JOHN BRADY That is going to be a challenge, and one I look at with great apprehension. The primary response we'...
TODD SPENCER In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. N...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
LON LACK We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. ...
DEBBIE TOWER
I intend to find out why the federal response, particularly the response of FEMA, was so incompetent... MARY LANDRIEU I don't think this response can just be handled by FEMA and local units of government.
BENNIE THOMPSON FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, ... Natural di...
ALCEE HASTINGS FEMA would make preparations for those types of things, ... They have a Disaster Mortuary Operationa...
JOSEPH ALLEN We feel that we're very close to getting resolution and we are waiting for those policy memos from F...
GAVIN SMITH One of the first things we must do is retool FEMA and enhance this vital agency's capabilities so th...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF FEMA has lost its way. FEMA has been submerged in a sea of bureaucracy,
JOHN DINGELL We have had praise from one end of Louisiana to the other about Amateur Radio operators, ... There w...
GARY STRATTON FEMA has lost its way.
JOHN DINGELL Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of p...
GILBERTO MADAIL I think FEMA is stretched, but the response is good at this point. This storm did something very unp...
TODD HUNTER As far as what I got from FEMA? Headaches.
SHELBA BIMM Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.
DAVID LIEBERSBACH NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for ...
BILL DEDMAN
It is not enough to remove Mr. Brown from the disaster scene, ... The individual in charge of FEMA m... BARBARA BUSH I am concerned that FEMA is not ready and we'll see much of what we saw during Katrina, ... I've bee...
BENNIE THOMPSON
Frankly, whatever assistance people get from FEMA will not have a lot of extras built into it, so th... GENE GREEN I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE
I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people. MILO YIANNOPOULOS [But the effectiveness of the response to Katrina appears to diminish the higher you move up the cha...
TRENT LOTT We were expecting a plane of folks from FEMA, ... What we're doing now is working with families who ...
SHEILA ALLEN We haven't received any for quite a while. We haven't received any official FEMA evacuees other than...
BUDDY ROGERS I know the initial response from students is, they don't like it at all.
JULIUS JONES FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.
ROBERT LEBLANC They did a real good job that day - 911. That's why I'm sitting here like this today because of the ...
STEPHEN RAYMOND I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it...
RAY NAGIN If you've got $2,300 from FEMA and you're in San Francisco, you're in trouble.
BRIAN SULLIVAN We are just waiting for [the EC] to provide their response.
ARCH CURRID FEMA strongly recommends communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flooding...
DAVID MAURSTAD We have several other teams that have volunteered to go, that have not been asked for by FEMA,
DICK TAYLOR We have significantly improved preparedness capabilities for natural disasters and for acts of terro...
RUSS KNOCKE From where we were [Tuesday], the state has really stepped up. FEMA has stepped up.
KRISTIN JACOBS Although FEMA takes an ?all hazards' approach to both natural and man-made disasters, here in Region...
KAREN ARMES We're waiting on their (Highland's) response.
DARREN KECSKES We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At ...
JOHN HALL We intended to start a dialogue. We have been surprised by a lack of administration response.
KEVIN COOK We don't have any big numbers to report because of FEMA,
BRUCE HERTZKE They were real nice people. They hooked me up with FEMA. From the time that I got here it was beauti...
ROBERT BROWN It's difficult to understand the lack of preparedness and the ineffective response to something that...
SUSAN COLLINS We have still not received any response from North Korea.
YOSHINORI KATORI If we weren't prepared, and we didn't do our part, no amount of work by FEMA could overcome the lack...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY My role will be to coordinate all recovery efforts from making sure the city gets its FEMA reimburse...
ANTHONY MILLS If it wasn't for FEMA, I probably would have lost my mind.
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON FEMA does want to help pay for the cleanup.
DALE JOHNSON
I appealed to them to rethink their positions. We are waiting for their response. MOHAMED ELBARADEI The appointments work done by this president is as fine as has ever been done. And I believe that Mi...
CLAY JOHNSON III They have regret they got caught. Regret is an intellectual response, remorse is an effect emotional...
BRUCE PERRY We're waiting for their response so we can get cracking before Easter.
MARY THOMPSON We are certainly changing our approach. The guidance we have had from FEMA is you need to be able to...
RICHARD GRIFFIN He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.
IBRAHIM GAMBARI FEMA said no, because we have renter's insurance,
DENNIS JONES sincere response from the Chinese side.
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI We're hoping that we get a reprieve from FEMA, that FEMA will help us house these people a little lo...
MARK SMITH We may be asking for extensions of these deadlines based on market conditions and commitments previo...
BILL WHITE Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibil...
MIKE ROSS
Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON (We) await the response from U.S. authorities over the request to question all of those under invest...
ARMANDO SPATARO We're just waiting for FEMA to give us the go-ahead, ... We have more than 1,000 manufactured homes ...
JENNIFER HALL We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.
ROBERT BLACK FEMA went from being a laughingstock to one of the most effective federal agencies we had, ... A lot...
BEVERLY CIGLER
These natural and human tragedies provided the headline news; they also provoked a quite remarkable ... QUEEN ELIZABETH We actually haven't had any repost of people saying that they have had any problems with FEMA; every...
DANA CONKLIN The FEMA Snow Job
JAMES BOVARD A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
DON ZIMMER FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw th...
BILL DEDMAN So far, we have a great response from the businesses and churches.
ANNETTE ZELLA FEMA strongly recommends that communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flo...
DAVID MAURSTAD We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..
SEAN MORAN If you were a disaster victim, you probably never met a FEMA employee. They were all [reservists].
GEORGE HADDOW
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for... AYN RAND As of now, no response from the public or business.
DAVE BOWMAN The response from local employers has been gratifying. We have a lot of fantastic companies attendin...
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM To be free from control is like to have a heavy cross to carry one moment then tossing it aside the ...
GARY F EVANS... We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.
SCOTT TERRY At this point, they (FEMA) don't have plans to move refugees anywhere other than where they are at t...
ERIC LAMOUREUX FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,
JOANNA GONZALEZ [Lawmakers blistered former FEMA chief Michael Brown for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina ...
KAY GRANGER From the very beginning, '60 Minutes' was clear that the only response they would take to this story...
JAY CARSON The response has been great, even from smokers.
PETER HAMELIN
required an immediate response from the European Union. DAVID BYRNE The response from the community has been phenomenal.
LAWRIE MANTWELL All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to resu...
RICHARD AXEL Better to start small, and do that well. We got more response from the press release [in January] th...
HUGH FORREST I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our o...
HANNIBAL but we were told Friday that they [FEMA] had put $39 million in the bank.
FRANK MICHEL
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fire... MARY LANDRIEU positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the tu...
GIDEON GONO positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the tu...
GIDEON GONO Unless FEMA has a direct line to the president, the people of Hawaii and the nation are at risk. FEM...
DANIEL AKAKA As long as you require the FEMA director to go through two and three levels of bureaucracy to get a ...
GEN. JULIUS BECTON This payment has been made following a positive response from some of our exporters and holders of f...
GIDEON GONO As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state em...
LEO BOSNER I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.
MICHAEL BROWN
An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting ... ROBERT WOODROW WILSON When someone in vulnerability tells you everything they’ve known has fallen apart, the correct res...
MIKE MCHARGUE [FEMA got] people who needed critical care ... Children all the way to the elderly.
JOHN BRADY That is going to be a challenge, and one I look at with great apprehension. The primary response we'...
TODD SPENCER In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. N...
RENEE FREDRICKSON
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall. 
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. 
We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. 
When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching... 
If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bit... 
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ... 
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. 
I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it. 
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a... 
I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and e... 
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ... 
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Here is the same clock that walked quietly 
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons 
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. 
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When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with ... 
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels acros... 
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you stra... 
I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour... 
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. 
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ... 
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass... 
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to... 
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money tha... 
If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow. 
Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating. 
I'm tired of biting my tongue. 