12/09/2009
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"I think we have a real problem on our hands as a result of our nation's borderline insidious reliance on mineral imports."
"I would like your commitment that you will work with me, you will work with the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) to really be involved to a personal extent and degree with some of these challenges t..."
"I agree with you. We have got a lot of work to do, and I look forward to those conversations with you and your team."
"I would ask that you not forget the smaller communities where we see--we see an addiction and a devastation truly just taking our communities, just wiping them out."