Bob Graham

Drilling is inherently risky. We can never reduce it to zero.

I think we need to put ourselves in the position of, what should we be doing to assure that our children and grandchildren will have a Gulf of Mexico that is of a quality that we would be proud to hand over to them as our inheritance.

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

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 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…

This is so important that the Vice President of the United States should be in charge of all WMD activities here.

Tell me one thing more important than defending America against weapons of mass destruction.

If we continue at the same pace, it is more likely than not that a WMD attack will occur somewhere in the world by the end of 2013, and that attack will be biological rather than nuclear.

We have found the enemy and he is us.

We've got to see this as a global threat.