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I support the administrative rules promulgated by the Department of the Interior which permit a Native Hawaiian government to establish a relationship with the…

— Brian Schatz

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives…

— Todd Rundgren

Coming from Hawaii doesn't really affiliate you with being American - you call yourself Hawaiian.

— Evan Mock

“We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in…

— Lilikalā K. Kame'eleihiwa

Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily…

— Natalie Maines

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States…

— Dan Quayle

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we…

— Neil Abercrombie

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

— William McKinley

United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under…

— Leonard Peltier

Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many…

— Mazie Hirono

“The day’s most vivid exchanges were about a delicate but serious matter: the extreme foreignness of native Hawaiians. Both sides used racial arguments. Annexationists…

— Stephen Kinzer