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Mike Gravel
stated on March 13, 2008 in a YouTube video:

"I am a candidate. I have not withdrawn."

By Amy Hollyfield • March 26, 2008
Mike Gravel
stated on September 26, 2007 in a debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2007
Mike Gravel
stated on June 28, 2007 in Washington, DC.:

"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."

By John Frank • September 20, 2007
Mike Gravel
stated on June 28, 2007 in a debate at Howard University.:

"In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."

By David DeCamp • August 30, 2007

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