“I’m very sorry that people are sick, I’m very sorry that people are dying and if the EPA and I in any way contributed to that, I’m sorry. We did the very best we could at the time with the knowledge we had.” She added: “Every time it comes around to the anniversary I cringe, because I know people will bring up my name, they blame me, they say that I lied and that people died because I lied, [they say] people have died because I made a mistake.”
– Christine Todd Whitman, who as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W. Bush
