"This is going to be a setback to the cattle industry, but it can be one that is contained. It does

"This is going to be a setback to the cattle industry, but it can be one that is contained. It does not have to result in any widespread panic in our country, because the likelihood of there being any effect on humans is extremely remote."
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss.
Reacting to the announcement by Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman of the first suspected U.S. case of mad cow disease.
"I blame it on greed, greed, greed. The greed of the industry, the greed of the lobbyists and the greed of the members of Congress."
Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y.
On the reason for the mad cow disease crisis.