Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"I hope that some of you on the Committee and the Committee itself will think about taking whatever parts of this report seem sensible and necessary to you and become leaders in the Senate and Congress..."

"the bottom-line conclusion of this report is that we are better defended than we were in 2001 after the anthrax attacks, but really the State of our biodefense is inadequate, and we are unprepared for..."

"And we were talking about the problem that there were not medical--pharmaceutical countermeasures and how do we create a market incentive where there is no natural market incentive for pharmaceutical ..."

"we are both wasting resources, but we are also not preparing ourselves adequately to deal with threats to animals and humans."