Bob Graham: “We have found the enemy and he is us.”

If we don't act, if we are timorous and if we have an enhanced likelihood similar to the Macondo, that we are all going to be pointed at as to why we were unable to recognize and why we were unwilling to act in the public interest.

This report is a blistering, scalding indictment of the practices engaged in by the industry and by regulators that created the conditions that made this accident possible.

I was impressed with how you brought people together to Crab Bank.

We believe very strongly that this goal should be, as Senator Alexander has said in other areas, to assure the American people that the way in which we are conducting this enterprise has the highest standards of safety of any place in the…