Bill Nelson actually said...

"the present system is not working. The information is not flowing. The decisions are not timely."

"You cannot leave BP in control of this because they are not going to get it done."

"We told them from day one, 'You will not clean it up out of the marsh.' They said it will never get there. Well, it is there."

"In any major disaster such as this and command and control, what I would suggest that you should have is what is standard operating procedure in any major military type chain of command, which is you ..."