Oil Spill Quotes
32 quotes by 24 authors
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There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something…
— Haley Barbour
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You can't have oil without oil spills.
— Markwayne Mullin
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We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers…
— Molly Ivins
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Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
— Ralph Nader
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for…
— Carl Safina
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After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids…
— Alyssa Milano
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We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the…
— Van Jones
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Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.
— Ken Salazar
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I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.
— Tony Hayward
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What the hell did we do to deserve this?
— Tony Hayward
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Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and…
— Sarah Palin
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I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.
— Joe Lieberman
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The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in…
— Tony Hayward
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They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.
— Billy Nungesser
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Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at…
— Larry J. McKinney
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This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding…
— Carol Browner
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The day that we've been fearing is upon us.
— Bobby Jindal
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We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?
— Billy Nungesser
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The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.
— James Carville
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I have no confidence whatsoever in BP . I think that they do not know what they are doing.
— Ed Markey
Who Wrote These Oil Spill Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 32 Oil Spill Quotes as follows: