Adam Giles Quotes

The federal government needs to make it clear that recognition of Indigenous rights means that when Indigenous bands and their leadership approve projects, we listen.

You cannot turn the clock back, you cannot give the island of Manhattan back to the indigenous, but on the other hand, you can ensure that the indigenous can maintain their way of life.

Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

I'm a blue-shirt guy.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

I'm an Angus King independent.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

I am no politician.

What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

As a Mohawk from Kahnawake, I consider Montreal a suburb of our reserve.