``It's fair to say ...''
``I think it's fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending.''
US president-elect Barack Obama will be ``fair to both India and Pakistan, without sacrificing American strategic interests'', according to Hindustan Times that cited a statement by an Indian who studied with Obama at the Harvard Law School.