We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
BARBARA MIKULSKI
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/senator-paul-sarbanes-really-was-a-big-help-to-me--683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/i-think-paul-sarbanes-and-his-wife-christine-socia-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/on-the-most-recent-battles-on-health-insurance-ref-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/i-wanted-to-share-what-a-gracious-kind-of-guy-geor.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - My own father had died of Alzheimer’s. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/my-own-father-had-died-of-alzheimers-george-mitche-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/george-mitchell-introduced-the-idea-that-wed-go-on-683x1024.jpg)
