Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.