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Letter "M" » Michael Chertoff Quotes
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«She obviously has the confidence of the president, and that has a huge impact on her ability to influence the process,»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«there is no specific, credible intelligence information indicating that an attack in the United States is imminent.»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«Our department must drive improvement with a sense of urgency. . . . We as a department must be nimble and decisive, ... We will be straightforward. If something goes wrong, we will not only acknowledge it, we will correct it.»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«[There is no] specific, credible evidence of an attack that's imminent in the United States, ... We feel that, at least in the short term, we should raise the level here because, obviously, we're concerned about the possibility of a copycat attack.»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight,»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«there would be overflow from the levee, maybe a small break in the levee. The collapse of a significant portion of the levee leading to the very fast flooding of the city was not envisioned.»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«This is really one which I think was breathtaking in its surprise,»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«[That alone would be] a very catastrophic scenario, ... And although the planning was not complete, a lot of work had been done. But there were two problems here. First of all, it's as if someone took that plan and dropped an atomic bomb simply to make it more difficult. We didn't merely have the overflow, we actually had the break in the wall. And I will tell you that, really, that perfect storm of combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight.»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«I think we have discovered over the last few days that with all the tremendous effort using the existing resources and the traditional frameworks of the National Guard, the unusual set of challenges of conducting a massive evacuation in the context of a still dangerous flood requires us to basically break the traditional model and create a new model ? one for what you might call kind of an ultracatastrophe,»
Author: Michael Chertoff
«I think we have discovered over the last few days that with all the tremendous effort using the existing resources and the traditional frameworks of the National Guard, the unusual set of challenges of conducting a massive evacuation in the context of a still dangerous flood requires us to basically break the traditional model and create a new model -- one for what you might call kind of an ultracatastrophe,»
Author: Michael Chertoff
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