Bob Graham: “This tragedy will be compounded if we learn nothing about the opportunities that are available to us.”

We've got to see this as a global threat.

A second thing, some of the most scientifically committed universities in this country, over 20, have now formed a coalition to work precisely on this issue of the culture of security within our university setting.

I think we need to put ourselves in the position of, what should we be doing to assure that our children and grandchildren will have a Gulf of Mexico that is of a quality that we would be proud to hand over to them as our inheritance.

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