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BARBARA MIKULSKINancy [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.
More Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It’s the stuff of legends. And now it’s the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
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Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
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Politics is social work with power.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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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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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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George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we’d go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He’s the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
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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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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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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
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