Political Quotes

On the recordMay 16, 2010
The private sector must accept responsibility for this failure in modern engineering.
Said by
Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Lieberman emphasizes private sector accountability for the engineering failures leading to the oil spill.

Share

More from Joe Lieberman

Dec 12, 2017

nobody in the Government could actually tell us how much we were spending on biodefense.

congress.gov
Dec 12, 2017

I think the reality of this threat to agricultural security has quite naturally now hit the people in the industry more than people outside.

congress.gov
Dec 12, 2017

next year will be the 100th anniversary of the influenza outbreak of 1918. They estimate that at least 50 million and maybe as many as 100 million people died from that flu in 1 year globally.

congress.gov
Mar 5, 2024

We got into this because our members about a year-and-a-half ago said to us, oh, my God, another Trump-Biden match. It's not good for the country. It offers no hope of bringing bipartisanship back to Washington regardless of who wins.

transcripts.cnn.com

Other voices in this conversation