Video Clips

Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Clips from State of AlaskaClear

Suzanne LaFrance

“every federal or state dollar that we secure for construction reduces the impact of future shipping surcharges by about $2.50 down the line. When you add this $191.3 million settlement to the $25 million from the state and the $61.5 million in federal grants secured under my administration, The impact is massive. We are effectively protecting Alaskans from as much as $694 million in future surcharges on food, goods, and everyday supplies.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Dan Sullivan

“I was very much in the mindset that it's time to settle the litigation. As the mayor, as the attorney general said, this has been going on for more than a decade. We have won, and the federal government shouldn't just be dragging its feet. Enough is enough.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Dan Sullivan

“what I've been doing in my position as your senator is engaging. We've been engaging for years on this, but to really kind of up the tempo on engaging with the top people in our federal government that was the Maritime Administration Director, the mayor, and Administrator Steve Carmel, who— that was the direct litigation against the city. Secretary of Transportation Duffy, Attorney General Blanch, as he mentioned. And my message to all of them was, hey guys, come on, let's settle this.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Dan Sullivan

“what this settlement is going to do, it is going to dramatically help us bring down costs on everything from food and fuel that Alaskans need.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“this port has been a longstanding issue in terms of it being repaired and upgraded.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Suzanne LaFrance

“it's the largest settlement in the municipality's history. Every single dollar of this funding will go directly toward construction costs for the Port of Alaska modernization program.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“Steve used a lot of his good relationships with the Trump administration to be able to explain really what was happening here with the port and why the port actually and the city of Anchorage and the state of Alaska need this settlement to happen.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Steve Cox

“Today's settlement, I really do think, changes that. It brings finality to a dispute that really has lasted, as the Attorney General said, really since 2003, while providing meaningful resources to help rebuild this critical piece of infrastructure.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Steve Cox

“Governor Dunleavy asked me to assist in facilitating the negotiations, and I'm grateful for his confidence. I want to thank Mayor LaFrance for welcoming that assistance.”

Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: Port of Alaska · Jul 7, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“We are this close to getting this right. We're this close to a massive project. We are this close to getting Alaskans gas. We are this close to just getting this project going. And I would say it would be a travesty if tomorrow one body or the other gavels out because they're basically telling Alaskans we're done with this.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“They just went through a flurry of amendments that no one ever saw before. They weren't there. Nobody ever saw them. And so I don't think it's a bill that works, to be honest with you.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“We just had a record cold winter. We're running out of gas. Our bases are running out of gas. The world is in chaos.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“The Constitution doesn't say maximize revenue for government. It says manage your resources for the maximum benefit of the people.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“You get a gas line with cheap gas at $4 or $5 a unit, It's for the people to turn their lights on, for the people to heat their homes, for the people to have businesses, for the people to enjoy and be able to stay here in Alaska. Maximum benefit for the people, not maximum revenue at any cost for the government.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“We don't know what the world's going to be like 5 years from now. I mean, it's a chaotic world. So we import gas. We import gas to our bases. I mean, think about what Russia thinks, China thinks.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“I don't see where the plan B is imports, which is absolutely, I think most people would say, is crazy, to be honest with you.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“We didn't have the Russian War. We didn't have the Persian Gulf issue going on. We have that all here.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“we have a flurry of amendments on the floor that people wanna act on and vote on and try and understand in just a couple minutes. And that just simply doesn't work.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“I wanna thank the House, and not only do I wanna thank the House, I wanna thank both parties in the House. That bill, I believe only 4 folks voted against it. It was beyond the supermajority”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“this project could help with that and we wouldn't have to import gas. We could be self-sufficient for 60, 70 years.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“I want to thank the House of Representatives, a body of 40 people that voted on what industry considers, observers consider, others consider to be a pretty good bill. What you would refer to as a clean bill. There wasn't Christmas tree'd with S corp or wasn't Christmas tree'd with this issue or that issue. Not a perfect bill, but no perfect— no, there's no perfect bill here I've seen, and I've been a senator and a governor, but this was a bill that would have really worked that the House did.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“We're running out of gas. I mean, we've been warned for years, a couple decades, we're running out of gas. We had a cold winter in Fairbanks, record cold, number of days below zero, coldest January on record in Anchorage.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“You've got $200 trillion cubic feet of gas. The largest resource state in the country by far. And you're going to import gas because— finish the sentence.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“by doing this project, you get revenue. You get revenue, you get royalty, you get corporate tax, you get severance tax. As the representative said, what— this is basic math. Zero times zero is zero.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“I and others are getting calls from folks not just in the state and not just in the country, but around the world. Future potential partners, our Asian partners, are wondering, do you guys really want this? Do you want this project?”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“this would be the largest non-recourse funded project ever, ever in Alaska. We've proven we can do big projects.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“Leadership gets together, they put together an ad hoc committee, they work through a couple of the issues, and then they agree to put it on the floor for a vote. I think you get a bill before noon if that were to happen.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“35 In the House. A number in the Senate, so the vast majority of legislators want to get stuff done, wanna get something done for the people of Alaska, not just something, but something good. We can do it tomorrow. If people are seriously interested in getting something done, it could be done tomorrow.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“Wasn't a perfect bill that came out, but it was a bill that was gonna work. This bill right now is not going to work.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“I've heard throughout the last couple months, we're rushing this thing, it's too big, let's slow it down, from many of the same people that just in the Senate were introducing amendment after amendment after amendment that nobody ever saw. So that kind of doesn't make much sense.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“the Glenn Farm was working with labor to negotiate an MOA. And the bill ends up going into law negotiating labor in, in the bill. And so, uh, I don't think that's something that is going to work. Um, and then there's a number of restrictions and triggers, uh, added to the bill.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“here's a couple things that are wrong with the bill. We don't know exactly what the S-Corp language in this bill does. We don't know. It's gotta be unraveled and we gotta take a look at that.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“the most, um, forward-leaning base in America protruding into the Arctic and the, and the Pacific with 200 trillion cubic feet of gas. They import gas from Canada to fuel their bases. I don't know, maybe it's just me, seems a little, little different, a little strange.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

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Mike Dunleavy

“if not, then, uh, you throw in the towel, and then we go to Plan B, right, for energy. What's Plan B? What's Plan B? Plan B is— Plan B is imports.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026