Political Quotes

it is very difficult for me to rise today-- with a heavy heart--to bid aloha to my good friend, colleague, and brother Dan Inouye. It is hard for me to believe that the terrible news I just received is true. Senator Inouye was a true…

to me culture is like a tree. If you cut the tree from the roots, which is a culture, you know, there is a huge loss of something.

The broad terms Indian and Tribes represented a diversity of people with unique cultures, languages and traditions indigenous to the United States.

All of us here in this room and the Committee staff, all will have to continue to educate our colleagues here in the Congress to know as much as they can about our indigenous people.