Mike Gravel Quotes

I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana

It is clearer and clearer to me that life is not held sacred in this country; it is cheap.

I quickly learned that the congressional delegation from Alaska was deeply committed to the oil industry and other commercial interests, and senatorial courtesy prevented other members from disputing with Senators Ted Stevens (Republican) and Mike Gravel (Democrat) over a matter involving their home state. Former Idaho governor Cecil Andrus, my secretary of interior, and I began to study the history of the controversy and maps of the disputed areas, and I flew over some of them a few times. Environmental groups and most indigenous natives were my allies, but professional hunters, loggers, fishers, and the Chambers of Commerce were aligned with the oil companies. All the odds were against us until Cecil discovered an ancient law, the Antiquities Act of 1906, which permitted a president to set aside an area for “the protection of objects of historic and scientific interest,” such as Indian burial grounds, artifacts, or perhaps an ancient church building or the site of a famous battle. We decided to use this authority to set aside for preservation large areas of Alaska as national monuments, and eventually we had included more than 56 million acres (larger than the state of Minnesota). This gave me the bargaining chip I needed, and I was able to prevail in the subsequent debates. My efforts were extremely unpopular in Alaska, and I had to have extra security on my visits. I remember that there was a state fair where people threw baseballs at two targets to plunge a clown into a tank of water. My face was on one target and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini’s on the other, and few people threw at the Ayatollah’s.

Useful Italian Phrase: “Non, grazie, non voglio ascoltare Mike Mulligan and his Steamsh‑— va bene.” (No, thank you, I don’t want to listen to Mike Mulligan and his Steamsh‑— oh, all right.) 16.

Go ahead and invest a tad bit more and get a good quality, high-rise toilet. It will pay for itself in short order because they can flush bricks and gravel.

In the early-morning hours, when all of El Paso slept, Richard Ramirez dressed in black and burglarized people’s homes. He used what Mike had told him—“Watch out for gravel, clotheslines, garbage cans, and dogs”—and became a very proficient thief. By the time he was sixteen, his nickname had become “Dedos,” or “Fingers.” If it wasn’t nailed down, he’d take it. He often sold what he’d stolen: a radio, a leather jacket, a television, stamps, coins. Julian knew nothing of Richard’s nightly forays.