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Mick Wallace Quotes

born 1955 Ireland

Michael Wallace (born 9 November 1955) is an Irish politician and former property developer who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency from 2019 to 2024. He was a member of Independents 4 Change (part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL) during his period as an MEP.

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Random Mick Wallace quote

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If we care about human rights we will suspend relations with the criminal apartheid state of Israel until they stop the genocide of the Palestinian people and until Palestine is free.

We need more diplomacy, not less. We have two powers. The US and Russia have an awful lot in common. Both are run by monopoly capital, run by oligarchs on both sides. We have two imperialist powers fighting each other in Ukraine, and only working-class people are dying.

What is democracy anyway? Is it having a vote every four or five years? No, it's not. It's your people having a say in the society they live in. And most of the American people have no say in the society they're living in.

Energy poverty is first and foremost a political failure which requires an adequate political response which tackles the root causes of injustice while ensuring a fair and sustainable future for all. Energy is a public good, but we need to start treating it as such – because we haven’t been doing so.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mick Wallace (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.