Ken Salazar

There is no dispute here with respect to wind energy and how we move forward with wind energy in the Outer Continental Shelf.

But as President Obama has said he is not opposed, the administration is not opposed to production in the offshore.

We will have development of oil and gas... but that doesn't mean that you have to turn over every rock.

I think that particularly when you look at the amount of money that we need to invest in our land and water conservation...

I believe that no one is above the law and no one is above the regulations and, once we have rules in place, that they ought to be followed.

Maybe because we make people mad both on the left and the right, we may be doing the right thing.

I stand by it. I have no regrets.

I think that when one has to wait for a process that lasts 31 years to get an answer, that it is too long.

We need your help. You know what the issues are and you have spoken to them so eloquently over the years.

I think tribal colleges, Senator Tester, are very important in terms of creating the kind of educated workforce that is needed to bring about that kind of economic development.

Methamphetamine is the scourge of the Indian reservations across the entire Country.

For me and many of you who know my own story, you know that I strongly believe that education is the keystone to everything else.

I understand very much what happens with lawlessness in reservations.

The issues of Native Americans are not to be partisan issues, they are not to be Democrat or Republican issues.

I am a strong supporter of the principle of tribal self-determination and will work to fully enable tribal self-governance.

President Obama is committed to making sure that we change the conditions in Indian Country, all across the Country.

It is going to take a steady hand and a long-term sustainable commitment to address these issues.

We can help change the world.

I believe the economic stimulus package... there will be a significant infusion into Indian Country.

I am committed to restoring the integrity of the government-to-government relationship with Indian tribes.

It is going to be very important that that whole agenda is one that is fully shared by our Native American communities.

We will try in the months ahead to see whether we can bring that litigation to conclusion.

If I may, Chairman Dorgan, one of the realities of this Department that I have frankly discovered in the first few weeks that I have been there is that there is a perception that this is a department only of the west.

The Nation's First Americans are going to have a place at the table under President Obama's Administration.

The problems we have with health care... are simply exacerbated over what we see with non-Native American communities.