Michael Chertoff Quotes
We're racing the clock in terms of possible injury. We're racing the clock in terms of illness, and we're racing the clock to get them food and water. 
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Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.
- 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.
- Michael Chertoff