Richard Falkenrath Quotes (13 Quotes)

It's pretty clear that most of this activity was not focused on major natural disasters ... and was really focused more on the problems associated with terrorist attacks.

We definitely did worry about it. We knew we should do no harm to the disaster management side. The leadership of the White House knows the political significance of disasters.

This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.

There was a lot of jockeying at the time to try and protect turf.

Israel is quite important to the US. Europe is not indifferent, but it's safe to say they care less.

Everything else about the card is perfect for identification purposes. There's a name, there's a number, there's a digital signature. It is in many respects a national ID card even though in the card itself it says 'not to be used for identification purposes,'

Our country is not so ready to respond to the uber-disasters as we'd like to be, four years after 911.

Social Security cards right now are a problem. They're a very significant breeder-card for other types of identification. It's very easy to get a Social Security card. Many are issued over and over. There are many more Social Security cards in circulation today than there are people in the United States.

A port is where chemical, energy and oil facilities all come together with a large number of people, with quite limited security on the water.

Anecdotal information of poor or nonexistent security in this sector is overwhelming,

The United States is, at the moment, not well prepared to manage an emergency evacuation of this sort in the relevant time frame,

This is going to improve the quality of our identification, which we use at every checkpoint in the country.

The problem was, who was in charge on 911 Who the hell knew They kept asking and asking. You needed some clarity. It was supposed to pull it all together. But FEMA was grousing about that, they thought it was taking things away from them.