Political Quotes

“Thank you so much. We affectionately refer to the gentleman from Texas as Judge Carter, but a distinguished Member of Congress, a part of the leadership of the Republican team, and thank you also for coming tonight before the Congress and the American people, House of Representatives, to review probably what is one of the worst ecological disasters, natural disasters our country has ever experienced, and actually to come here and to review some of the timeline of what has taken place. You've touched on a number of important issues. First of all, as someone who comes from the State of Florida--we're part of the Gulf Coast--I have to extend our deepest, heartfelt sympathies to those that lost lives, both on the rig, and now we heard today from some of our colleagues, in an extensive review that we participated in on our side of the aisle, from some of those from the adjoining States, how their economy is suffering and how the proposed moratorium that's being arbitrarily imposed may make this disaster even worse. It's hard to imagine it being worse, but again, we empathize with those who have lost lives, who have been injured, and now have seen their livelihood dramatically impaired by this natural disaster. What we've got to do, though, is we've got to step back. We've got to look at what took place, and then we've got to look at some remedial action.”