Mary Landrieu actually said...

"What I believe those skeptics fail to recognize is that though banks are often happy to finance the next factory of an established company or the tenth deployment of a developed technology, they have ..."

"I believe it is this risk that we need to balance against any perceived risk of failure of a given project."

"But the blanket moratorium on all deepwater drilling does nothing to advance that goal, and in fact the de facto shallow water moratorium has even less of a nexus to the original problem."

"But let me be clear as one of the first senators to call for a full investigation into the accident and request more effective safeguards against future spills, I share the Administration's goal of a ..."