— William Aila, the head of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, as authorities probed the latest suspicious death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
“When Congress refuses to act, and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.”
— President Barack Obama, who bypassed the Senate and installed a national consumer watchdog on his own, provoking GOP threats of a constitutional showdown in the courts.
“The intentional killing of any monk seal is not only illegal, it is inexcusable environmentally and culturally.”
— William Aila, the head of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, as authorities probed the latest suspicious death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal.