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I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.

Barbara Boxer

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
BARBARA BOXER

Fighting Generations Jobs
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
BARBARA BOXER

Behaviour Optimist Politics
Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.
BARBARA BOXER

Fighting Interesting Life Regard
The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we’ve always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Safe Want
If it’s racist, it’s racist. If it’s anti-Semitic, it’s anti-Semitic. If it’s anti-women, it’s anti-women. If it’s anti-immigrant, it’s anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.
BARBARA BOXER

Language Needs Racist
I’ve faced the grief, I’ve faced the anger, and I’m ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Fighting Grief
The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.
BARBARA BOXER

Differences Moving Political
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
BARBARA BOXER

Home Life Privacy
I think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.
BARBARA BOXER

Expression Racist Thinking
I’ve always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it’s not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me “learning disabled.” The things people write about me.
BARBARA BOXER

Looks People Writing
If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they’re little boys, they’ve been wanting to be President.
BARBARA BOXER

Boys Men President
Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman’s health or her life, and if it does, you can’t support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Issues Support
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

Editors Pieces Writing
I don’t know how long I’m going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.
BARBARA BOXER

How Know Long Seeds
My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience.
BARBARA BOXER

College Understanding Want
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
If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, it’s not going to sit well
BARBARA BOXER

Children Moving Protect
Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.
BARBARA BOXER

Looks Nominations People
There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
BARBARA BOXER

Facts News Responsibility TV
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God, I’m still alive.’ But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
BARBARA BOXER

Funny Stupid Thanksgiving
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
Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he’s just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets – you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It’s scary.
BARBARA BOXER

Issues People Scary
There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
BARBARA BOXER

Bravery Country Fear War
I think the scientists have really caught the attention of the people of this country, and of course, they elected representatives by their very clear pronouncement that if we don’t do something, we’ll be in a lot of trouble.
BARBARA BOXER

Country People Thinking
It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
BARBARA BOXER

Born Brooklyn Care
I would not run for president. I really like what I’m doing now. People say I’m giving them energy and hope.
BARBARA BOXER

Giving People Running
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
BARBARA BOXER

Law Police Safety

I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.

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I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.

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