Liddy's prepared opening statement to Congress

Edward Liddy, CEO of AIG, is testifying before Congress right now. He feels your pain. From his prepared opening statement:

We are meeting today at a high point of public anger. Americans want to know how the country got in the financial mess we are in, how we are going to get out of it, and how quickly we can get back to the economic growth and prosperity we enjoyed for so many years.

I share that anger.

Ya don't say, Eddie?

He also uses the Nixonian-phrase "mistakes were made." By whom? (And when did we decide to ban the indirect object from the English language?)