Political Quotes

“About four years ago I offered an amendment on this floor during the appropriations process to eliminate this $5 million program called the Native Hawaiian Education program, intended to provide some money to help in the education of native Hawaiian children. The reason for that is very simple. In Hawaii there is the Bishop estate left by the heir to King Kamehameha and this Bishop estate has a $10 billion endowment. That is $10 billion. Their sole purpose, their sole charter is to educate native Hawaiian children. This estate has squandered this money for a number of years to the point where the school that receives this funding of the amendment offered by my friend from Hawaii, this school is being investigated by the Attorney General in the State of Hawaii. The school is being audited, investigated by the Internal Revenue Service. The trustees of this Bishop estate are paid, in 1996, $843,109, $843,000 to each trustee, more than what most CEOs in America are paid. I think the Bishop estate has its own series of problems.”