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Mike Gravel Quotes

1930–2021 United States

Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (/ɡrəˈvɛl/; born May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) is an American politician who was a Democratic United States Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981 and a candidate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election and the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Gravel is known for his anti-war, anti-establishment, and anti-corporate political stances.

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Is it a surprise to anybody in this room that if you don’t have any money, you don’t get any justice?

The military-industrial complex not only controls our government lock, stock and barrel, but they control our culture.

I think it's abominable that they go out and do these raids, separate families.

I am embarrassed at the thought of building a wall on the southern border.

I honor anybody that comes to this country as an immigrant, because we're all immigrants.

“We don't need a minimum wage; we need a living wage. We don't have that in this country because of what they passed.”

We call them illegal. Are they illegal? They're filling jobs that need to be done.

How can we not fail when we make the No. 1 priority in this country the military-industrial complex?

“If we were to chase them out, aren't we playing to the nativists, the crazies, who are opposed to anybody coming in since they got here?

The Democratic Party used to stand for the ordinary working man. But the Clintons and the DLC sold out the Democratic Party to Wall Street.

“You know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain.” — On staying in Iraq. Speech.

21 million Americans could have a four-year college scholarship for the money we’ve squandered in Iraq. 7.6 million teachers could have been hired last year if we weren’t squandering this money.

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