Neil Abercrombie Quotes

Neil Abercrombie — American Politician born on June 26, 1938,

Neil Abercrombie is an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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