Ron Wyden actually said...

"Now, what's happening in the Gulf is obviously an environmental disaster of huge proportions, yet Minerals Management didn't require an assessment of environmental consequences of an accident when it ..."

"I think the central question is, to get the maximum value out of your new enforcement effort, we've got to attack the problem at the outset."

"People who are riding on airplanes aren't going to say it's acceptable to have a tire blowing out every 500 takeoffs..."

"The company always says the same thing after one of these accidents: We're going to toughen up our standards, we're going to improve management, we're going to deal with risk."