We didn't do a very good job. But we did it all right. The science was all right. We even advocated well. But at the end of the day, a political decision was made that we simply could not influence.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

We are remaining exclusively focused on the oceans. We do not get into social issues, we do not even get into environmental records.

I desire to keep slavery and black people in the South in order to reserve the territories solely for white people.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

Come in every time you're in D.C. and teach me about the oceans. They didn't do that when I was a scientist in Washington. It's different now. All of a sudden, they've realized that there's more in this for them.