President Barack Obama

“Firstly, there is a six-month moratorium on new deep-water drilling permits for oil and gas.”

“The current exploratory drilling on 33 wells in the Gulf of Mexico will be suspended.”

“Planned drilling in two locations off Alaska will also be suspended.”

“A pending lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico and a planned one for Virginia will be cancelled.”

“I have ordered the Secretaries of Interior and Homeland Security, as well as Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency to visit the site on Friday to ensure that BP and the entire US govern…”

“the economy was getting "stronger by the day"”

“We've now added jobs [in] six out of the last seven months. The question now is, how do we keep this momentum going?”