“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Kelp forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.”
Jon Erlandson
“It is undesirable for China to see other Asia Pacific countries becoming a 'sandwich' between the U.S. and China with no other choice, either siding with the U.S. or with China.”
Yang Yi
“Many countries in East Asia and the Pacific face a potentially explosive increase in new HIV infections. The only way to prevent this is to move quickly to population-wide access to the full range of life-saving services.”
Peter Piot
“Many countries in the Western Pacific still do not have a (pandemic) plan of their own -- only seven have completed plans that have been approved by their governments,”
Bob Dietz
“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
Albert Einstein
“Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.”
Dan Quayle