Frances Townsend Quotations

We are disappointed that they were all housed together. We are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent.

the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of domestic incident management activities of all departments and agencies in the event of a terrorist threat, and during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, major disasters, or other emergencies, within the United States.

equally important that we not permit this valuable tool to be caught up in unnecessary rhetoric.

I haven't presumed that there needs to be a revision of the Stafford or Insurrection Act,

It was bin Laden who decided that it should just focus on the East Coast, and that the West Coast should be held in abeyance ... as a follow-on attack. It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time.

In response to Hurricane Katrina, the National Response Plan came up short. We need to rewrite the NRP so it is workable and so it is clear.

It was the president who acknowledged the response to Hurricane Katrina was insufficient, and it was the president who first sought the lessons learned.

In truly catastrophic events state and locals may be incapacitated or overwhelmed or even worse.

Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in the Patriot Act the mention of library records.

I should make clear from the outset that we do not know if the bird virus we are seeing overseas will ever become ... a pandemic.