I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.

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• Neil Abercrombie:

  There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly gr

• Neil Abercrombie:

  When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the

• Neil Abercrombie:

  Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the king

• Neil Abercrombie:

  Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be

• Neil Abercrombie:

  Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and n

• Neil Abercrombie:

  So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us

• Neil Abercrombie:

  A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's

• Neil Abercrombie:

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• Neil Abercrombie:

  You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

• Neil Abercrombie:

  So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybo