"You should look on the market demand side. You should see who is making the money, follow the money, chase the money."
"Poaching funds criminal gangs operating in Africa."
"We said there is a real problem. We would hope that you would adhere to CITES, put the noose around Hong Kong, which the British did."
"They are killing elephants because they see them as sources of money, and if we can take the money out of the equation, they will stop killing elephants."
"I believe that we are the market for ivory. The United States ranks second in the world in terms of a market for ivory that is sold."
"There is a real problem in Japan. Forty percent of the world's ivory is being consumed in Japan for the hanko, their signature stamp."
"We can also attempt to send a message that commercialization of wildlife that leads to its extinction is not acceptable."
"If we are all sincere about doing something about the sustainability of the African elephant, we need to focus on the poacher."
"Mr. Congressman, you made a big mistake. There is no post ivory in our country."
"It seems to me that what we all have in agreement and the core fundamental issue is that we are here to talk about the sustainability of the population of elephants, especially African elephants."
"if we go down this road, we may be solving a problem that doesn't exist."