Bob Graham

It is also critical that we test these dispersants not just for surface distribution, which has been their traditional use, but also for deep water purposes.

Let's not make, you know, the excuse of waiting for more reports to stop doing what we know we can do safely now.

I think part of the responsibility of effective management is to understand the risk and take steps to mitigate the risk.

If dramatic steps are not taken we fear that at some point in the coming years another failure will occur.

As a Nation we can take some concrete steps that will dramatically reduce the chances of another Macondo.

I believe this is the chance that we may not have again in the foreseeable future to make a significant movement toward restoring this critical part of our Nation.

I believe the American public would be outraged.

I believe that something analogous to what Mr. Reilly has said, that we need to have a Gulf of Mexico-wide set of safety standards that would apply to any country touching the Gulf, is the best assurance that the United States has against…

We have recommended that 80 percent of the fines and penalties that we anticipate will be assessed under the Clean Water Act be directed at Gulf restoration.

This report is a blistering, scalding indictment of the practices engaged in by the industry and by regulators that created the conditions that made this accident possible.

We did not mean parity, that is that all companies were equally subjected to this culture of complacency.

I think that is a failure of management to do effective risk analysis and take steps to mitigate the risk.