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North Carolina is blessed with amazing coastal resources and we need to safeguard our coast because it helps drive our economy.

— Roy Cooper

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do…

— Elizabeth Dole

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

— Ric Keller

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not…

— Jeff Miller

I've spent time in the coastal Carolinas and have seen what small business development has done to maintain the wetlands and reestablish the fisheries…

— Andrew Zimmern

We want to protect our industries here in North Carolina.

— Mark Robinson

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

— Sigourney Weaver

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing…

— Linda Ronstadt

Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using techniques that…

— Sylvia Earle

We could truly make our oceans clean again.

— Boyan Slat

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

— Lisa Murkowski

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not…

— Sherwood Boehlert