There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
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.
Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.
We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
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.
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
The sealing industry is dying.
My clients are the whales and the seals.
Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.
The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.
Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
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.
People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.
