Ted Stevens: “If the Senate decides to discriminate against our state and take money only from our state, I'll resign from this body.”

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.

Joe Walker is not a number.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

I do believe that it is of such significance that we cannot turn away from it.