"Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning……" — Michael Chertoff
"Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane."
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Michael Chertoff
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30 Quotes by Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff has 30 quotes on this site.
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I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing…
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
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So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
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We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a…
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We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists…
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was…
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And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program…
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
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The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do…
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And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning…
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First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
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So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this…
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More Excusing Quotes
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When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning…
— Dean Ornish
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Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really…
— Armond White
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What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is…
— Pope Pius XI
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We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though…
— James F. Cooper
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Blaming others is excusing yourself.
— Robin Sharma
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Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself..
— Robin Sharma
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The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able…
— Elaine L. Jack
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Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a…
— William Shakespeare
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with…
— J C Ryle
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
— C.S. Lewis
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Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.
— Linus Torvalds
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