Oil Spill Quotes

• 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 another blowout.

  Carl Safina

  Science, Fishing, Oil

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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 relation to the total water volume.

  Tony Hayward

  Ocean, Oil, Water

  "BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill". Interview with Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

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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

  Mean, Trying, Accidents Happen

  "Lieberman on Gulf Spill: “Accidents Happen” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2010.

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• I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

  Tony Hayward

  Thinking, Impact, Environmental

  "The spilling fields". "Background Briefing" with Wendy Carlisle, www.abc.net.au. July 4, 2010.

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• The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Ocean, Water

  "Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Apr 29, 2010.

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• What the hell did we do to deserve this?

  Tony Hayward

  Hell, Spills, Deserve

  "BP’s Slick Greenwashing" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. May 4, 2010.

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• It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Long, Size

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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 form of oil spills and global warming.

  Van Jones

  Oil, Global Warming, Plant

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• Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Suffering, Horizon

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Bird, Colonels

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• We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

  Billy Nungesser

  Years, Two, Oil

  "Gulf oil spill: 'Everybody's lost hope'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 31, 2010.

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• You can't have oil without oil spills.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Oil, Spills

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• From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

  Rick Perry

  Stupid, Republican, Oil Drilling

  "Perry: Oil spill may be 'act of God'". Rick Perry's speech at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, www.politico.com. May 3, 2010.

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• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Opportunity, Oil

  "Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet" by Daniel Beekman, www.seattletimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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• 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

  Oil, Mexico, Miami

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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 to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.

  Alyssa Milano

  Strong, Children, Blessed

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• You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

  Doug Rader

  Years, Waiting, Thousand

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• There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Color, Culture, Blindness

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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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 with the biggest environmental response.

  Carol Browner

  Country, Oil, Environmental

  "Gulf oil well still gushing". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. May 31, 2010.

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• BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Ocean, Oil, Fake

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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

  Oil, Black, Said

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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 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

  Country, Lying, Deep Water

  "Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?". www.facebook.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Ice, Oil

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• The day that we've been fearing is upon us.

  Bobby Jindal

  "Jindal: 'The Day We've Been Fearing Is Upon Us'", www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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