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If you want to be a leader, it doesn’t mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Barbara Boxer

There’s a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.
BARBARA BOXER

Attitude Differences Taken
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
BARBARA BOXER

Democracy Giving Hands
You take what you’ve learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.
BARBARA BOXER

Down Keep Learn Work
When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it’s a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.
BARBARA BOXER

Book Children Thinking
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
BARBARA BOXER

Artist Golf Writing
It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
BARBARA BOXER

Born Brooklyn Care
If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, it’s not going to sit well
BARBARA BOXER

Children Moving Protect
Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman’s health or her life, and if it does, you can’t support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Issues Support
I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Freedom Patriotic Speech
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
BARBARA BOXER

Essence Go Letting Mean
You stand up to bullies. Don’t shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Bully Fighting Politician
In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman’s right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.
BARBARA BOXER

Brother Pregnancy Simple
I don’t know how long I’m going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.
BARBARA BOXER

How Know Long Seeds
My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience.
BARBARA BOXER

College Understanding Want
Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.
BARBARA BOXER

Challenges Earth People
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one’s retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
BARBARA BOXER

Pieces Retirement Thinking

If you want to be a leader, it doesn’t mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

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