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" When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade. "

Paul Watson

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" I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. "

" 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. "

" In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations. "

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

" We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. "

" I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "

" Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. "

" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "

" Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. "

" 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. "

" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

" Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. "

" Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities. "

" The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check. "

" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "

" Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade. "

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

Paul Watson

Ashamed

Canadian

" In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. "

" That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' "

" My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me. "

" People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. "

Paul Watson

Beginning

Law

" I don't have a religion, but I respect them. "

" There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. "