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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

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Philanthropy Social Work
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Creating Democratic Society
You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Cant Pay Survival Symbol
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
On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Battle Issues Reform
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Iraq Responsibility War
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
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
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Retirement Senior Sick
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Borders Jobs Thinking
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Family Survival Symbols
I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Promoting Thinking Women
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
BARBARA MIKULSKI

America Military Rights
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Able Doctors Redemption
There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Arms Social Together
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

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