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Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

Barbara Mikulski

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Melting Pot
I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Coming Double Out Standard
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

First Said Wanted
People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that’s a hallmark of a very good leader.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Leader People Thinking
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Ambassadors Country United States
We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting – our shoulders square, our lipstick on – because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Fighting Hard Square Work
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
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Safety Senior
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Opportunity Passion School
I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he’s just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Glasses Hero Moving
I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Close Friend Senior Soon Together
I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Promoting Thinking Women
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Looks Together Two
I didn’t know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Jobs Know Nafta Suspious
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Age Important Safety
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Doctors Heart Males
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
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Hurt Social

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