Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It was really cool, the fact that he was doing country and folk.Quote by Randy Bachman about country, time
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.Quote by Paula Abdul about character
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden ''worthless'' land now has an airport on it.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money, state, good, good luck
A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water
All Hawaii beaches are open to the public - there's no such thing as a private beach.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about public, things
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.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money
At the same time there's a history in Hawaii of the emergence from pre-feudal separate islands into a kingdom, into a shotgun republic, into an annexed territory, and then into a state.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about history, state, time
Everybody got interested in "How do I get mine?" Which motivates, I think, 99 percent of the opposition to the bill.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about motivation
Fundamentally, the land was held in common and administered by a group of nobles called the alii on behalf of the common good.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, good, good luck
I came to Hawaii in 1959 with statehood, and of course the whole foundation of this multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic society in Hawaii is the aloha spirit, the legacy of the Polynesian pioneers.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about society, spirit
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 have no mechanism to do it, '' I was told.Quote by Neil Abercrombie
In 1920, a couple hundred thousand acres had been set aside called ''Hawaiian homelands. '' The idea was to rehabilitate Hawaiians by letting them homestead on acreage set aside for them.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, idea
In highly affluent areas, between multi-million dollar estates, you'll see a right of way so that anybody can get their surfboard and walk between these estates and get down to the beach, which is public.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about public, rightness
In this rainbow society that we have, it became very apparent to me after I entered into an electoral political life that the question of settling the issues on the assets of the Hawaiians is what the Akaka bill is about.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about question, society, life
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.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, old, olderness, good, good luck
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm 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.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about talking, state, money
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 who's really going to administer this stuff.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about bankers, money
So there's 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.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, interest, public, good, good luck