Ken Salazar

One in three Native American women will experience sexual assault in her lifetime. This is an atrocity.

I will also seek to resolve the unending litigation about the management of these lands and assets.

The 49-step process that you allude to is, I think, absolutely abysmal. It is something that needs to be fixed.

President-Elect Obama believes, as I do, that our foreign oil dependence is a grave threat to our national security, our planet, and our economy.

Senator Salazar has had a distinguished and successful career in land and water conservation and management and is highly qualified to lead the Department of Interior.

Both President Obama and I are on record as supporting the legislation introduced by you in previous Congresses to provide Native Hawaiians with an opportunity to establish a Native Hawaiian governing entity.

The United States suffers from reliance on imported oil and increasingly on imported natural gas.

If Congress enacts this legislation, we look forward to working with you, and with the City of Paterson to form a productive partnership for the present management of this Park.

I have been troubled by the fact that the Bush Administration has moved to open lands in environmentally sensitive areas to development.

I want the public to be proud of the Department's work, and I want those who work for the Department to be proud of their service.

Eliminating fraud, waste and corruption in all Interior Department programs, including in the BIA, will be a priority for me.

time and time again over his long career in natural resources, Senator Salazar has brought people of diverse views together around difficult problems, and reached creative solutions that work for all.

Fighting for Colorado's land, water, and people.

Conservation and renewable energy deserve much more emphasis than they have been given, and are the cornerstones of a climate friendly energy policy.

I plan to continue working with the Committee and its Members in a cooperative, bipartisan way and in a manner consistent with my responsibilities to the President.

I am writing on behalf of the one-million members of The Nature Conservancy to urge confirmation of Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior.

I assure you I will make it a high priority to resolve this decade plus-long litigation.

I think President-elect Obama brings the kind of change and hope to America that is of the kind that this country so needs.

I am honored to appear before you today as President-elect Obama's nominee to be Secretary of the Interior.

I want this Department to be America's Department.

A priority of my tenure will be economic development for Indian people.

The 1872 mining law, which I've worked on a for a long time and know it well, is something that needs to be changed.

The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest general agricultural organization, endorses the nomination of Ken Salazar to be secretary of the interior.

Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior.

Like President Obama, I am a strong believer in the right of Indian Tribes to self-government.