James Carville

And, by the way, if it takes an act of Congress, then do it.

But what it looks like is, we ought to just do things and then send them the bill, because if you say, can we do this, they are going to slow-walk him.

If -- if the President does that, I will be the biggest supporter in the world. He will be beloved in Louisiana.

This is going to -- has the potential to destroy life as we know it in South Louisiana and all over the northern Gulf Coast.

I just -- and I don't think -- I don't care if the President calls Tony Hayward or not. I want him to call the attorney general and say, how's that criminal investigation -- you know, the criminal investigation, or what do we have on this…

I don't understand why somebody doesn't drop a subpoena, or the Justice Department or somebody, drop a subpoena and say if we don't have it in 24 hours, that's it, partner.

If it weren't be for Congressman Markey and Senator Boxer and Senator Nelson, we wouldn't even have this today.

This is not -- this is not an incident. This is not a disaster. It's an environmental catastrophe.

Just use that brainpower you have, Mr. President, and use the power that the Constitution and the American people have given you. Hold people accountable. Tell us what's going on. Inform us. Talk to us as a nation.

But -- but don't tell us you're going to make it right. Just make it right. Just show it.

If he spent some time understanding who we are, what we're about, the things that we love -- and we're different people.

I understand why they are mad at me. I knew they would when I did this, but, you know, I'm just not going to quit.

I think the secretary of interior was precisely right.

BP is not the equal of the United States government. And this president needs to tell BP: I'm your daddy. I'm in charge. You're going to do what we say. You're a multinational company that is greedy and you may be guilty of criminal…

David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, come down here. I'll take you around. We'll take you out and show you. We don't want to be mad. We want you to help us.

Ms. Obama is doing this wonderful thing about healthy eating. The healthiest food in the world is produced off the Louisiana coast: shrimp, oysters, crab, fish.

We're different people here in South Louisiana. We want our culture. And it's being destroyed, and it's been destroyed over a period of time, and we're sick of it.

I think the secretary of interior was precisely right.

If this thing goes on here for another, you know, week, things are going to get dicey down here.

If this would have happened in Nantucket, if this would have happened in San Francisco Bay, if this would have happened in the Chesapeake Bay, if this would have happened in Lake Michigan, the response would have been entirely different.

They're sick of it. They're sick of being second.

If they triple the number of people that they had devoted to cleaning up where they were at the mouth of the river where we went for three hours, you know how many people would be out there? Zero, none, nada, because there wasn't a single…

I think that, you know, one of the things this president is going to have to do is, he's going to have launch a massive criminal investigation.

The president did say the right things today. And I think that's a real positive step in the right direction, saying that he's not going to abandon Louisiana.

It would be very consistent with BP's behavior. They lie about everything and they fake everything, so I'm not surprised at all.