|
|
Neil Abercrombie Quotes
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the states collecting lease money because all of a sudden worthless land now has an airport on it. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, Why are we doing this? Why dont the Hawaiians have control? Well, we have no mechanism to do it, I was told. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Land in Hawaii is money. What Im talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in whos really going to administer this stuff. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
So theres always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Theres a series of benefits - educational, health, etc. - that benefit Native Hawaiians. The revenues are starting to mount into the millions. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
When there wasnt any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Youre talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year. - Neil Abercrombie Quotes
Quotes Cloud
After Airport Because Chairman Control Damn Doing
Dont First Gave Going Good Have Hawaiians
Land Lease Mechanism Money Native Nobody Paid
Portion Remember Saying Seen Serving States That
Their This Told Well When Year
|
|
|
