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We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

— Austan Goolsbee

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

— Bill Dedman

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

— Jessica Savitch

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

— Lloyd Bridges

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

— David Plouffe

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

— William Scranton

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

— Jessica Simpson

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

— Rick Larsen

✗Opposing Perspectives

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

— Natalie Coughlin

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

— Alberto Tomba

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

— Jason Statham