Ted Stevens: “But that is a national thing, and with due respect, people from Alaska cannot quite make it down your way.”

Shame on us. It's because we're addicted to oil in one arm, and we're addicted to greed that somehow we have convinced people that we can't do it.

[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.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.

The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.