James Carville

Oh, yes. I mean, I hope she does.

She did start the cycle. And you have got to give her credit. She has some guts. She took on an incumbent senator in Alaska.

There's nobody more compelling than she is in politics.

46 percent of Republicans identify themselves with the Tea Party.

She did start the cycle. I mean, you've got to give her credit. She has some guts. I mean, she took on an incumbent senator in Alaska.

The federal government has put some real skin in the game here. I mean, they've rebuilt some -- some things here. Some of it has gone well.

Most of the great stuff that's happened here has been because the electorate came back, the citizens came back and thought, ok, you know, we really do get the city we deserve.

We have had unbelievable political reform here. We have gone down from seven assessors to one. We have reformed and streamlined the levee boards.

I hope that -- that this administration is ready to really put some pressure on BP to get the LSU and the Tulane people out in the marshes, measuring this stuff.

This thing is not going away. We're not going to turn the page. We're going to stay until the last drop of oil is out of the Gulf of Mexico. I promise you that.

I don't know, John. But I can tell you there's not a single person that I've run across in Louisiana that believes that figure.

But, look, politically, I would -- I would be just -- I would be happy, as would most Democrats, if the thing would be -- just go away.

No, no, of course not. Politically, it's not wise at all. But it was the right thing to do.

I would be just -- I would be happy, as would most Democrats, if the thing would be -- just go away.

I think Mayor Bloomberg has shown some extraordinary courage here.

It's the difference between having the right to do something and it being the right thing to do.

Politically, it's not wise at all. But it was the right thing to do.

I disagree with Senator Reid. He's a dear friend and I support him. I disagree. And if Islam would have attacked us, I would say, we shouldn't do that. But I was under the impression that we were attacked by al Qaeda.

If they can clean some of this stuff up with science, you know, technology, people think of things. And we may be able to do this and do a very good job, but we'll still be living with it.

I think it's unbelievable that we never got the instrumentation on there. And the comical thing is, is that BP said they really didn't care what the flow rate was. Of course they cared.

Yes, this is -- this is going to be for the rest of my days and for a long time to come after that.

It's going to be -- look at what happened at the Exxon Valdez. This is a much worse spill and much more environmentally sensitive area, affecting much more people.

My guess is before this is over, they're going to have to figure out a way to keep BP viable enough to continue to pay this stuff off, because it's going to be an awful lot of money that they're going to owe.

If you -- if it was $4,300 a barrel, and what most people believe is something between 75,000 to 100,000 barrels a day for, what, 90 days or something like that? Well, of course it's in their interest.

I guess. And you know what? There are going to be a lot of books written about this, and that was one of the things that I can't wait to find out in the book, is how we never found that, why no one just simply said, 'Do that.'