We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.
BARBARA BOXERI’ve been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
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If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, it’s not going to sit well
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers
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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.
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If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don’t put it in the facts section.
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You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
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The Saudi government’s denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia’s economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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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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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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If you want to be a leader, it doesn’t mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.
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Since 1980, we’ve used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They’re in the Congressional Record
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I’ve gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
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