Billy Nungesser

Instead of hiring P.R. people to talk about ballets on the water, if we just do the right thing, sit down and deploy every piece of equipment, there's something to hang your hat on.

If we did our job and did the right thing, the news you would be reporting would be good news.

Instead of hiring PR people to talk about ballets on the water, if we just do the right thing, sit down and deploy every piece of equipment, there's something to hang your hat on.

If we don't make some serious changes and a sense of urgency does not take hold here, we will lose this war, and it will be his fault.

But if we don't make some serious changes and a sense of urgency does not take hold here, we will lose this war, and it will be his fault.

You are hoping BP makes them whole. You are hoping we stop the oil. We hope we get our way of life back.

It matters to the wildlife. It matters to the wetlands. It matters to the way of life in Louisiana. We have got to know what we're up against.

You are hoping we stop the oil. We hope we get our way of life back.

How long are we going to let them tell us what they're going to do. When is the government going to say, get out the way, we're going to measure it.

It matters to the wildlife, it matters the wetlands. It matters to the way of life in Louisiana.

If it's $50,000 a month to the bank, and it's going to take them 90 days, pay them the $50,000 a month while they work out the claim. Don't make them sweat it out until you come back and either make them whole or sit down and work out the…

We will not allow them to be there as torpedoes for the levees.

We will not put the citizens in harm's way.

We're letting people stand in our way. My guys put lights on their boats last night. Where you saw them with the wet vac, they're out there tonight sucking up oil, because they're not going to give up the fight.

We're at war, says the president, but yet this lady, who thinks we can help with volunteers putting the pipe together, has the ability to stop this island.

If that island gets infected with oil, the blood is on her hands. She stopped it.

The only way we're going to win this is for the Coast Guard, BP, the government all to be on the same team pulling together.

Does it look like we're doing everything? Does this look like we're doing everything? This isn't doing everything.

The only way anything ever got done was the President coming down here himself.

This berm by Friday would have protected that small, one of the last breeding grounds out there left.

I will send her those pictures personally, because she will personally be responsible for killing hundreds of pelicans.

The President of the United States better address it, because it's not just somebody like me or him or anybody sounding off at the mouth.

Where was the federal wildlife and fishery for the last 50 years? They have not spent a dollar out here.

The president needs to do a little soul-searching. I don't want to tell him how to do his job, but he needs to take a step back and say, I have got some problems up here in Washington, and I better address them.

The president of the United States better address it, because it's not just somebody like me or him or anybody sounding off at the mouth. It's what we truly feel, that we are getting the runaround.