Change Quote by Mark Ellman

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

— Ed Case

“statehood was crucial to future national existence.”

— Timothy Snyder

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

I think it accrues to Hawaii's benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We're already geographically isolated,…

— Brian Schatz

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

— William McKinley

I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

— Dan Fouts

“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

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

I have served in the Senate since December 2012 with seats on the Appropriations and Commerce committees and previously served as the lieutenant governor…

— Brian Schatz

“In post-1959 Hawai‘i, hotels and resorts were becoming the new plantations.”

— Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua

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

I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

— Daniel Inouye