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FEMA has lost its way.
JOHN DINGELL FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, ... Natural di...
ALCEE HASTINGS We want to show (Barbour) and FEMA and everybody else that bureaucracy won't stand in our way.
MERRILL OSMOND He has been [at FEMA] four or five years.
ANDREW LESTER We spent a lot of time trying to understand the new FEMA rules. That has not been a satisfying exper...
ANDRES DUANY Unless FEMA has a direct line to the president, the people of Hawaii and the nation are at risk. FEM...
DANIEL AKAKA The way it is now, none of these piecemeal things will deal with FEMA being buried in a gigantic bur...
BEVERLY CIGLER The appointments work done by this president is as fine as has ever been done. And I believe that Mi...
CLAY JOHNSON III 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 From where we were [Tuesday], the state has really stepped up. FEMA has stepped up.
KRISTIN JACOBS We actually haven't had any repost of people saying that they have had any problems with FEMA; every...
DANA CONKLIN FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.
ROBERT LEBLANC The job FEMA has done is terrible. I would give it a failing grade.
JANE BULLOCK I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE If it wasn't for FEMA, I probably would have lost my mind.
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON![]()
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON![]()
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! The presiden...
ANDREW SULLIVAN Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! ... The pres...
ANDREW SULLIVAN![]()
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
LAURENCE J. PETER![]()
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER![]()
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fire...
MARY LANDRIEU As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON![]()
FEMA has proven to be a shell of what it once was and has been unable, and seemingly unwilling, to p...
MARY LANDRIEU So far, FEMA has provided rental assistance for more than 500,000 families and housed more than 40,0...
NICOL ANDREWS As long as you require the FEMA director to go through two and three levels of bureaucracy to get a ...
GEN. JULIUS BECTON![]()
Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM They all say they're waiting for response from FEMA. It's quite pathetic to have that lack of respon...
CHRIS WRIGHT The FEMA Snow Job
JAMES BOVARD [FEMA got] people who needed critical care ... Children all the way to the elderly.
JOHN BRADY The collection of bodies is not normally a FEMA responsibility.
DAVID PASSEY TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
DAVID WALLIAMS Higher education has lost its way, but we've all lost our way.
DAVID LONGANECKER I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.
MICHAEL BROWN FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw th...
BILL DEDMAN FEMA has a responsibility to ensure that disaster rebuilding efforts use the best data available... ...
DAVID MAURSTAD The last four years were all about terrorism. No one was working on natural hazards. FEMA has not ha...
ERIC HOLDEMAN NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for ...
BILL DEDMAN We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. ...
DEBBIE TOWER![]()
Jo? Look at me. I’m about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to rem...
SHERRILYN KENYON every day that we delay professionalizing FEMA and depoliticizing it is another day that taxpayers' ...
DAVID OBEY Hopefully, this will be the beginning, not the end, of changes in FEMA.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER I am concerned that FEMA is not ready and we'll see much of what we saw during Katrina, ... I've bee...
BENNIE THOMPSON I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.
RAY NAGIN I think his whole domestic agenda has been submerged by Iraq.
DARRELL WEST There's no way to give any sort of estimate on what that cost would be. FEMA is responsible for reim...
DENISE BOTTCHER A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
DON ZIMMER FEMA said no, because we have renter's insurance,
DENNIS JONES There's no FEMA, no Red Cross, no help,
JAMES GIBSON Although FEMA takes an ?all hazards' approach to both natural and man-made disasters, here in Region...
KAREN ARMES We are like a lot of people - at the mercy of FEMA with this.
DAN LEISTIKOW We don't have any big numbers to report because of FEMA,
BRUCE HERTZKE Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA We have several other teams that have volunteered to go, that have not been asked for by FEMA,
DICK TAYLOR responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.
DAVID WALKER As far as what I got from FEMA? Headaches.
SHELBA BIMM FEMA does want to help pay for the cleanup.
DALE JOHNSON We may be asking for extensions of these deadlines based on market conditions and commitments previo...
BILL WHITE Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
THAD COCHRAN![]()
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Yes, there was paralysis, but it was on the part of FEMA.
BOB MANN They're happy to be out on the field again, instead of sitting in a FEMA trailer going nuts.
DAVID CHAMBERLAIN What we've been doing is providing them with the wherewithal until FEMA can kick in and they can mak...
NANCY BROWN FEMA is aware of local concerns where sites are proposed, and balances those concerns with its urgen...
SCOTT WELLS He has done what you kind of expect an acting director to do, which is basically to mind the store. ...
RICHARD ANDREWS If you've got $2,300 from FEMA and you're in San Francisco, you're in trouble.
BRIAN SULLIVAN This will help expedite the process and is a requirement by FEMA.
CHRIS BOONE Dealers will sell hundreds at a time, usually routed through by FEMA,
LANCE WILSON As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state em...
LEO BOSNER FEMA had the resources, but because of bureaucracy, they were slow to the punch causing countless nu...
BART STUPAK We've added a FEMA disaster advisory alerting consumers to cars that were registered in the gulf.
LARRY GAMACHE FEMA needs additional funds now to continue these relief efforts.
BILL FRIST FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,
JOANNA GONZALEZ This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put unde...
MARGARET ARNOLD This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency ) was put und...
MARGARET ARNOLD When Katie Couric is there in waders two days before FEMA, what's going on?
JAMES HAYES How many FEMA people were pre-positioned at the Superdome or in New Orleans?
CARL LEVIN I wished I'd never heard of FEMA. I never had this kind of problem.
JERRY COLLINS FEMA was designed to help people get back on their feet.
JAMES SHEBL People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF but we were told Friday that they [FEMA] had put $39 million in the bank.
FRANK MICHEL Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.
DAVID LIEBERSBACH that in the vast majority of hurricanes, other than those in Florida in 2004, complaints are rife th...
BOB HUNTER I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it...
RAY NAGIN Both symbolically and also because of the job he did, ... No one person is ever at fault. I don't me...
PATRICK QUINN In some cases folks will think they need an SBA loan and they really need a FEMA grant.
CAROL CHASTANG I thought city government was bad. It doesn't have anything on FEMA.
JIM SHERIDAN We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.
ROBERT BLACK![]()
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
BILLY CORGAN Re-branding FEMA doesn't fix the problem; it just puts a new acronym on it.
DAVID MARIN It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe...
LEIGH ABRAMS It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe...
LEIGH J. ABRAMS We're hoping that we get a reprieve from FEMA, that FEMA will help us house these people a little lo...
MARK SMITH He has become a true believer in it. E-commerce has become a bureaucracy-buster to reform the intern...
DAVE COLE I'd like an hourly progress report on the FEMA teams on the ground.
STEVEN BOCHCO FEMA will reimburse the county for our salaries while we are on assignment,
JOHN HALL We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.
MICHAEL GRANT![]()
As you know, natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA,
RICK PERRY There are no evacuees en route via the FEMA airlift to our knowledge.
GAYLE FALKENTHAL
JOHN DINGELL FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, ... Natural di...
ALCEE HASTINGS We want to show (Barbour) and FEMA and everybody else that bureaucracy won't stand in our way.
MERRILL OSMOND He has been [at FEMA] four or five years.
ANDREW LESTER We spent a lot of time trying to understand the new FEMA rules. That has not been a satisfying exper...
ANDRES DUANY Unless FEMA has a direct line to the president, the people of Hawaii and the nation are at risk. FEM...
DANIEL AKAKA The way it is now, none of these piecemeal things will deal with FEMA being buried in a gigantic bur...
BEVERLY CIGLER The appointments work done by this president is as fine as has ever been done. And I believe that Mi...
CLAY JOHNSON III 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 From where we were [Tuesday], the state has really stepped up. FEMA has stepped up.
KRISTIN JACOBS We actually haven't had any repost of people saying that they have had any problems with FEMA; every...
DANA CONKLIN FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.
ROBERT LEBLANC The job FEMA has done is terrible. I would give it a failing grade.
JANE BULLOCK I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE If it wasn't for FEMA, I probably would have lost my mind.
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! The presiden...
ANDREW SULLIVAN Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! ... The pres...
ANDREW SULLIVAN
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. LAURENCE J. PETER
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fire... MARY LANDRIEU As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON
FEMA has proven to be a shell of what it once was and has been unable, and seemingly unwilling, to p... MARY LANDRIEU So far, FEMA has provided rental assistance for more than 500,000 families and housed more than 40,0...
NICOL ANDREWS As long as you require the FEMA director to go through two and three levels of bureaucracy to get a ...
GEN. JULIUS BECTON
Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was. TINY TIM They all say they're waiting for response from FEMA. It's quite pathetic to have that lack of respon...
CHRIS WRIGHT The FEMA Snow Job
JAMES BOVARD [FEMA got] people who needed critical care ... Children all the way to the elderly.
JOHN BRADY The collection of bodies is not normally a FEMA responsibility.
DAVID PASSEY TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
DAVID WALLIAMS Higher education has lost its way, but we've all lost our way.
DAVID LONGANECKER I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.
MICHAEL BROWN FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw th...
BILL DEDMAN FEMA has a responsibility to ensure that disaster rebuilding efforts use the best data available... ...
DAVID MAURSTAD The last four years were all about terrorism. No one was working on natural hazards. FEMA has not ha...
ERIC HOLDEMAN NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for ...
BILL DEDMAN We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. ...
DEBBIE TOWER
Jo? Look at me. I’m about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to rem... SHERRILYN KENYON every day that we delay professionalizing FEMA and depoliticizing it is another day that taxpayers' ...
DAVID OBEY Hopefully, this will be the beginning, not the end, of changes in FEMA.
CHARLES E. SCHUMER I am concerned that FEMA is not ready and we'll see much of what we saw during Katrina, ... I've bee...
BENNIE THOMPSON I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.
RAY NAGIN I think his whole domestic agenda has been submerged by Iraq.
DARRELL WEST There's no way to give any sort of estimate on what that cost would be. FEMA is responsible for reim...
DENISE BOTTCHER A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
DON ZIMMER FEMA said no, because we have renter's insurance,
DENNIS JONES There's no FEMA, no Red Cross, no help,
JAMES GIBSON Although FEMA takes an ?all hazards' approach to both natural and man-made disasters, here in Region...
KAREN ARMES We are like a lot of people - at the mercy of FEMA with this.
DAN LEISTIKOW We don't have any big numbers to report because of FEMA,
BRUCE HERTZKE Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA We have several other teams that have volunteered to go, that have not been asked for by FEMA,
DICK TAYLOR responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.
DAVID WALKER As far as what I got from FEMA? Headaches.
SHELBA BIMM FEMA does want to help pay for the cleanup.
DALE JOHNSON We may be asking for extensions of these deadlines based on market conditions and commitments previo...
BILL WHITE Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
THAD COCHRAN
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it... VINCENT VAN GOGH Yes, there was paralysis, but it was on the part of FEMA.
BOB MANN They're happy to be out on the field again, instead of sitting in a FEMA trailer going nuts.
DAVID CHAMBERLAIN What we've been doing is providing them with the wherewithal until FEMA can kick in and they can mak...
NANCY BROWN FEMA is aware of local concerns where sites are proposed, and balances those concerns with its urgen...
SCOTT WELLS He has done what you kind of expect an acting director to do, which is basically to mind the store. ...
RICHARD ANDREWS If you've got $2,300 from FEMA and you're in San Francisco, you're in trouble.
BRIAN SULLIVAN This will help expedite the process and is a requirement by FEMA.
CHRIS BOONE Dealers will sell hundreds at a time, usually routed through by FEMA,
LANCE WILSON As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state em...
LEO BOSNER FEMA had the resources, but because of bureaucracy, they were slow to the punch causing countless nu...
BART STUPAK We've added a FEMA disaster advisory alerting consumers to cars that were registered in the gulf.
LARRY GAMACHE FEMA needs additional funds now to continue these relief efforts.
BILL FRIST FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,
JOANNA GONZALEZ This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put unde...
MARGARET ARNOLD This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency ) was put und...
MARGARET ARNOLD When Katie Couric is there in waders two days before FEMA, what's going on?
JAMES HAYES How many FEMA people were pre-positioned at the Superdome or in New Orleans?
CARL LEVIN I wished I'd never heard of FEMA. I never had this kind of problem.
JERRY COLLINS FEMA was designed to help people get back on their feet.
JAMES SHEBL People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA willingness to take on the vital task of leading FEMA during this challenging time.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF but we were told Friday that they [FEMA] had put $39 million in the bank.
FRANK MICHEL Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.
DAVID LIEBERSBACH that in the vast majority of hurricanes, other than those in Florida in 2004, complaints are rife th...
BOB HUNTER I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it...
RAY NAGIN Both symbolically and also because of the job he did, ... No one person is ever at fault. I don't me...
PATRICK QUINN In some cases folks will think they need an SBA loan and they really need a FEMA grant.
CAROL CHASTANG I thought city government was bad. It doesn't have anything on FEMA.
JIM SHERIDAN We have notified FEMA and Louisiana officials that we are nearing capacity.
ROBERT BLACK
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo. BILLY CORGAN Re-branding FEMA doesn't fix the problem; it just puts a new acronym on it.
DAVID MARIN It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe...
LEIGH ABRAMS It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe...
LEIGH J. ABRAMS We're hoping that we get a reprieve from FEMA, that FEMA will help us house these people a little lo...
MARK SMITH He has become a true believer in it. E-commerce has become a bureaucracy-buster to reform the intern...
DAVE COLE I'd like an hourly progress report on the FEMA teams on the ground.
STEVEN BOCHCO FEMA will reimburse the county for our salaries while we are on assignment,
JOHN HALL We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.
MICHAEL GRANT
As you know, natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA, RICK PERRY There are no evacuees en route via the FEMA airlift to our knowledge.
GAYLE FALKENTHAL
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
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There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
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