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Top 10 Gulf Oil Spill Quotes

On April 20, 2010, a British Petroleum operated oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, creating the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The months following the disaster have been deeply politicized, with everyone from BP executives, to members of congress, to the President of the United States weighing in as millions sit glued to televisions watching pundits insert commentary over live feeds of the spill. RockTheQuote.com has been watching too, and here are the top 10 Gulf Oil Spill quotes of 2010:


  1. "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."
    Tony Hayward
  2. "In case you're wondering who's responsible, I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down."
    Barack Obama
  3. "I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown [of British Petroleum following the Gulf Spill]."
    Joe Barton
  4. "Our job is to keep the boot on the neck of BP to ensure it meets its obligations."
    Ken Salazar
  5. "I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care, but that is not the case with BP. We care about the small people."
    Carl-Henric Svanberg
  6. "And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially had the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."
    Barack Obama
  7. "You know, when I woke up this morning and I'm shaving, and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and she says, 'Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?'"
    Barack Obama
  8. "We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back."
    Tony Hayward
  9. "I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest."
    Tony Hayward
  10. "The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."
    Rush Limbaugh

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