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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.