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If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”

Barbara Boxer

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.
BARBARA BOXER

Book Children Thinking
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
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Artist Golf Writing
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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Behaviour Optimist Politics
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
BARBARA BOXER

Democracy Giving Hands
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Believe Military Respect
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Home Life Privacy
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman’s right to choose, a good public education system.
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Dream Fighting Thinking
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.
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Addresses Country President
In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.
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Country Democracy Threatened
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It’s not good enough to think, ‘This is the best we can expect from this president’.
BARBARA BOXER

Past Rights Thinking
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.
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Doctors Needs Technology
We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth
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Democracy Style United States
I’m a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.
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Bigs Collaboration Teamwork
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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Independent Vote Voting
I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
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Prepared Thinking Way
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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Interest Oil Rip Special

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