Adopted Quote by Sylvia Earle

It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all.

— Jeff Van Drew

You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you…

— Roscoe Bartlett

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

— 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

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if…

— Aaron Peirsol

What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll…

— Barbara Boxer

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil…

— Winona LaDuke

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some…

— Tristan Jones

Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is…

— Lawrence Anthony

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage…

— Lloyd Bridges

This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to…

— Ed Murray