Neil Abercrombie: “This is a very, very big opportunity and challenge for us that I think we will be able to meet. Mr. Chairman, I reserve…”

And I would just like to ask people who -- who have this political orientation towards the President, respect us here in Hawaii. Respect his mother and father. Respect the people that I loved and the people that I knew and the little boy…

I think the answer from the most practical point of view is the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Act of 1921. The Congress obviously recognized that there was a distinctive entity in the category of Native Hawaiians as a logical extension of…

We regard the Pacific Ocean as not separating us in the Asian Pacific region, but connecting us in the Asian Pacific region.

The State of Hawaii has become the first sub national government to sign onto the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership.