“A quick quiz. What do the following events have in common? The war in Iraq. The Exxon Valdez oil spill. The rise… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“It's only second period, and the whole school knows Emma broke up with him. So far, he's collected eight phone numbers, one… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
“Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all… — Billy Nungesser Copy Share Image
“Presidents rise and fall according to how they handle a crisis - an invasion, a depression, a massive oil spill - but… — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait. — Doug Rader Copy Share Image
“We tend to think of environmental catastrophes—such as the recent Exxon Valdez oil-spill disaster in the Bay of Alaska—as "accidents": isolated phenomena… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“Mackay had just failed to tip the coat-check girl and was now blinking and working his arms into a too-small trench coat;… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
It's going down, I'm yelling timber You better move, you better dance Let's make a night, you won't remember I'll be the… — Pitbull Featuring Ke$ha Copy Share Image
“WHODUNIT BY BRUCE TIERNEY | 838 words A slippery situation in the Gulf Black Horizon (Harper, $25.99, 384 pages, ISBN 9780062109880), the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it. — James Carville Copy Share Image
