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- First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one. — Michael Chertoff
- And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. — Michael Chertoff
- Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. — Michael Chertoff
- We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA. — Michael Chertoff
- So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place. — Michael Chertoff
- The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country. — Michael Chertoff