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" Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet. "

Paul Watson

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" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "

" We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. "

" We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. "

" The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. "

" I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. "

" I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate. "

" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "

" The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. "

" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "

" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "

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" The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian. "

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Canadian

" The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera. "

" Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. "

" I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people. "

" The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan. "

" There are very few fishermen left today. "

" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "

" I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. "

" I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. "

" Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. "

" The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. "

" I'm not really a fugitive. "

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Really

Fugitive

" All confrontation is based on deception. "

" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "

" The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing. "

" I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds. "

" NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. "

" Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. "

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