Quotes by Dan Miller

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

It's true that technology and the information age is sweeping the world. It has changed fundamentally some of the economies of the world.

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

You are a tourism state. We think there is more potential on the coast than anything we can do. So I'll just leave that with you, then if there are opportunities between the two systems that provide a mutual benefit that can benefit both British Columbia and Alaska and the systems themselves then I'm very much interested in pursuing those.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.