Oh, look, we have absolutely there needs to be a greater sense of urgency, whether it's getting more hard booms, skimmers, jack-up barges and resources down here, whether it's shortening the turnaround time on making decisions, whether…

It was a huge political, 'I told you so,' when they said you weren't giving enough booms. You weren't doing enough to keep this oil from hitting our shores. It's time for us to take over.

We have been frustrated with the disjointed effort to date that has too often meant too little, too late for the oil hitting our coast. We need folks in each of the vulnerable basins, for example, the Breton Sound, Timbalier, Terrebonne…

We've been frustrated with the disjointed effort to date that is too often, too little too late for the oil hitting our coast. We need folks in each of the vulnerable basins -- for example the Breton Sound, Timbalier, Terrebonne Bay…

This isn't sheen, it's not tar balls. It's deadly, heavy oil in delicate wetlands; dark sheets of it coming under the booms.

We need to bring transparency to Washington, D.C., so we can rid our capital of corruption.

We oppose the national Democratic view that says the way to strengthen our country is to increase dependence on government.

Our party is determined to regain your trust. We will do so by standing up for the principles that we share.

Don't let anyone tell you that we cannot recover. Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her.

Democratic leaders in Washington, they place their hope in the federal government. We place our hope in you, the American people. In the end it comes down to an honest and fundamental disagreement about the proper role of government.

Republicans are ready to work with the new president to provide these solutions. Here in my state of Louisiana, we don't care what party you belong to if you have good ideas to make life better for our people.

Democratic leaders in Congress, they rejected this approach. Instead of trusting us to make decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history.

The way to lead is by empowering you, the American people, because we believe that Americans can do anything.

All of us want our economy to recover and our nation to prosper. So where we agree, Republicans must be the president's strongest partners. And where we disagree, Republicans have a responsibility to be candid and offer better ideas for a…

Democratic leaders in Washington, they placed their hope in the federal government. We place our hope in you, the American people. In the end it comes down to an honest and fundamental disagreement about the proper role of government. And…

What it will do is grow the government, increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt.

As the president made clear this evening, we're now in a time of challenge. Many of you listening tonight have lost jobs; others have seen your college and your retirement savings dwindle. Many of you are worried about losing your health…

It's irresponsible. And it's no way to strengthen our economy, create jobs, or build a prosperous future for our children.

We believe that, with the proper education, the children of America can do anything.

If this threatens my state, I'm not going to make my primetime speech at the RNC.

Our state, our local, our federal government is much better prepared than it's ever been before for a storm. But we, as Louisianans, still have personal responsibility.

I think that people are on edge. And if, even with a light tropical storm, you had flooding in the streets, even if it wasn't six feet of water in people's homes, I think, psychologically, that could be devastating to the recovery of this…

We cannot afford to have a catastrophic failure of those levees again. We cannot afford to have massive flooding.

What's scary to us is not only looking back at what caused the last failure, but thinking about what's going to be fixed for June 1st. Because if it took this long to admit there were design failures, it makes us less confident in the…