I'm very fearful that the attention is going to drift away, and people will move on to other things, and the people of my state and my region will be forgotten.

And this is -- again, it worries me because this would be the equivalent of saying, well, we beat Rommel (ph) in North Africa. We can all go home now.

I mean, vigilance has got to be the -- the sort of the word.

The short-term reimbursement, the long-term cleanup, these are things that are going to take a long time, if our culture is to survive here.

This is good. It was good that we won, the Allies won El Alamein, and Montgomery (ph), did. But this -- in a historical context, this is just the end of the beginning.

The economy here is literally in shambles.

It worries me because this would be the equivalent of saying, well, we beat Rommel in North Africa. We can all go home now.

People have lost an unbelievable amount of money.

This culture down here is very much in peril. People's ways of life is very much at risk here.

I do. And, Anderson, to be honest with you, if it wouldn't be for you and a couple other people, I would be more scared.

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I don't want dispersants to be the Agent Orange of this oil spill.

I want to trust, but verify.

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The economy here is literally in shambles.

People have lost an unbelievable amount of money.