Ted Stevens: “I think we have got to find some way to prevent people from holding up the harvesting of timber.”

[t]he waste in that area was as great as the total catch of all the major fisheries off our shores. These 60 factory trawlers threw overboard--dead and unused--about one out of every four fish they caught.

We should be the world's leaders. Alaska should lead this parade.

it is the wrong mine for the wrong place.

We indicated that this was the perfect place to do it.