Bob Graham

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

If we don't act, if we are timorous and if we have an enhanced likelihood similar to the Macondo, that we are all going to be pointed at as to why we were unable to recognize and why we were unwilling to act in the public interest.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We think the United States needs to be in the strongest position of leadership before that conference in order to be able to have the influence that we think is critical in order to strengthen the global network against the proliferation…

We want to be able to put our maximum attention on those pathogens that have the greatest potential to be converted into weapons.

Mr. Chairman, the criteria for inclusion in tier one are those pathogens that are the most deadly and the most readily weaponized.

I think putting it in the National Security Council is a big mistake.

We have found the enemy and he is us.