Gulf Oil Spill Quotes

#1. 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 shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

Sarah Palin

#2. No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

Bart Stupak

#3. Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

Jim Palmer

#4. Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. 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 a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species.

Larry J. McKinney

#6. We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.

Bernie Sanders

#7. At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to live.

Stephen King

#8. Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

Daniel Prokop

#9. It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

Bryan Ferry

#10. The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.

David Letterman

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

David Letterman

#12. If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

H. Jon Benjamin

#13. The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

James Lee Burke

#14. It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Eugenie Clark

#15. Just as tobacco companies have been obliged to pay the costs of helping people to quit smoking, and BP has had to pay for much of the cleanup of its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it is high time for the industry to at least split the bill for the climate crisis.

Naomi Klein

#16. The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Robert Delaunay