I love the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny…

— Tony Hayward

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

— John Amos

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly…

— Sylvia Earle

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much…

— David Letterman

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

— Diane Wilson

I don't oppose pipelines - I like infrastructure - but I heard that the Keystone XL pipeline was going to carry tar sands oil…

— Winona LaDuke

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

— Sylvia Earle

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

— David Letterman

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf…

— Jay Leno

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild…

— Sylvia Earle

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico…

— Rick Renzi

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease…

— Carl Safina

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided…

— Bobby Jindal

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and…

— Kris Kristofferson

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing…

— Ridley Scott