People aren’t for hitting.
BARBARA MIKULSKIIn 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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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that’s what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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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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When you’re up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it’s looking right at you; it’s a different viewpoint.
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George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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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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College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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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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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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I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.
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