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Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about talking, state, money

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, old, olderness, good, good luck

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the...

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, photography, tests

What should be the future of Israel, is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part.

Quote by Shimon Peres about future, state, reason

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, too, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about earth

Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control...

Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about attitude, day

Against the envy of less happier lands.

Against the envy of less happier lands.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, envy

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the...

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about evolution, democracy, problems

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated...

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about attitude, vision

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, work

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, dispute

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States...

Quote by Joe Baca about americans

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden ''worthless'' land now has an airport on it.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money, state, good, good luck

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

Fundamentally, the land was held in common and...

Fundamentally, the land was held in common and administered by a group of nobles called the alii on behalf of the common good.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, good, good luck

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about bankers, money

We made stabs in the legislature to try to relieve the state of both the burden and obligation of administering lands that otherwise were construed as belonging to Native Hawaiians historically.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about burden, state

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in...

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie

When I was first elected to the state House of...

When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about water, home, house, state

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