Political Quotes

“Gentleman, you have illustrated the very point that I was trying to make. You instinctively think in terms of fixing the problem, not fixing blame. And you're a member of the Armed Services Committee, along with myself, and I don't know if you were aware of it, but the military has basically a whole plan of what they call a fusion unit, and it's a management structure where, when you get into something like this, the President has complete authority to do this. He could pull on every resource of the United States. He puts together the smart people, puts somebody in charge of it, and they take a look and say, Here's how we're going to solve the problem. One, we're going to try this. If this doesn't work, here's plan two and here's plan three. We need these resources. Foreign countries offered to help us. You put this thing together. You have somebody else that's taking care of State laws, environmental laws, making decisions. When Governor Jindal says, Hey, we want to put a sandbar in front of our wetlands to stop the oil before it gets in, you take a look at that and you get back to him within 24 hours or 12 hours and decide whether it's a good plan or not, and you have the right people, the best people available in place to analyze that, make a decision and move forward. And instead, he waits a month to get a response from the Federal Government, builds the sand dam, and then they tell him to tear it down.”