Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"The private sector must accept responsibility for this failure in modern engineering."

"And as Senator Collins said, my understanding is that increasingly in the Gulf and elsewhere we are using deep-water wells."

"I hope that you will take a close look at the special requirements for protection that it seems to me we now have all learned have to apply to deep-water drilling, including the blowout preventers, th..."

"Surely, this catastrophe should prompt the Administration to reconsider that ill-conceived budget cut."