"Coastal Louisiana has lost about 1,900 square miles of wetlands and some of the most productive ecosystem on this entire continent."
"part of the justification for rejecting the pipeline was because there was a greenhouse gas analysis that was done to determine it was going to contribute to emissions of greenhouse gas."
"the greatest cause of land loss in coastal Louisiana is the Federal Government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
"If I destroyed something, you would come after me. And if I destroyed wetlands, you know who would come after me? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, yet they are the greatest cause of loss to coastal w..."
"But doesn't that seem a little bit strange, that you would blame Keystone XL Pipeline on greenhouse gas emissions, yet for the Iran nuclear agreement you have the fourth-largest reserves of the world-..."
"What do we tell those people? Is the Stafford Act sufficient to respond to this disaster?"
"If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement community, why would you not do that?"
"We're going to donate in charity and volunteer our way out of the fourth most costly disaster in the United States--flood disaster in United States history."
"I don't think that can work that way."
"I just want us to be fair and try to work in a way to just get people what we can give them right now."
"If our first thought is always that America's citizens are looking for a way to beat the system, then we're never going to make any progress."