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We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Barbara Mikulski

I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn’t get any better than that from here on.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Elect Help Maryland People Sense Thinking
Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
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Doctors Heart Males
Politics is social work with power.
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Philanthropy Social Work
College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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College Dream Financial
In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
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Believe Helping Others Volunteer
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Political Retirement Senior
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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Country Job Minimum Wage
In my state [ Maryland] we’ve lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it’s very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.
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Borders Jobs Thinking
I didn’t know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.
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Jobs Know Nafta Suspious
I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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Country Promoting Thinking Women
I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.
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Close Friend Senior Soon Together
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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Legends Pope Supportive
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Ambassadors Country United States
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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Guy Kind Share
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Retirement Senior Sick
Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he’s swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as ‘dancing with the stars.’ And we had this great rock ‘n’ roll fund raiser.
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