Daniel Inouye: “Sadly, the National unemployment numbers of 9.7 percent and in Hawaii it's 6.7 percent.”

We may have our roots in Japan, but we are committed to the United States and we are prepared to fight for this country.

In 2009, the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye... supported simple and unconditional bill language like that in S. 248

We have the diplomatic approach, which is the carrot and carrot approach, where everybody wins.

I strongly urge that the Committee take action to assure that laws relating to Native American languages not only include Native Hawaiians in their wording, but also include Native Hawaiians as actual beneficiaries.