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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.

Barbara Boxer

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 BOXER

Country Fighting Grief
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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Party People Wings
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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Behaviour Optimist Politics
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Political Rights War
There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
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Bravery Country Fear War
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Gratitude Hands Sacrifice
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
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Democracy Fondest Help Hope World
I’ve gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
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Gone Loss Victory
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, ‘Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?’ They want that.
BARBARA BOXER

May People Political
The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.
BARBARA BOXER

Domestic Mean Support Violence
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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Children Moving Protect
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
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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Country Progress Treasure
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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Care Decision Medical
The Saudi government’s denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia’s economic development, modernization and prosperity.
BARBARA BOXER

Government Hurt Rights
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

Everything Leadership Mean Want

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