I’ve faced the grief, I’ve faced the anger, and I’m ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
BARBARA BOXERIn 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.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.
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I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.
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I’m not leaving the fight just because I decided not to run. I’m going to expand my political action committee and volunteer for it. I’m going to do lots of other things where I will have a voice. So I’m not leaving the fight.
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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we’ve made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
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Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
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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.
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If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, it’s not going to sit well
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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.
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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.
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I’ve been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.
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I am sure that every one of my colleagues “Democrat, Republican, and Independent” agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn’t that scary anymore.
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I’m a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.
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The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They’re not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.
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