"The first thing to say is I'm sorry," Tony Hayward said when asked what he would tell people in Louisiana, where heavy oil has already reached parts of the state's southeastern marshes.
"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."
Of course, he most likely will get his life back, unlike, say, Gulf shrimpers. And with salary and bonus at about $4.5 million, it's not such a bad life.