The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
BARBARA BOXERLet me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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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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It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
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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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There’s a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.
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Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I’d appreciate it
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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’.
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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.
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What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they’ll think they can do anything to the environment – anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What’s next?
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I would not run for president. I really like what I’m doing now. People say I’m giving them energy and hope.
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I don’t know how long I’m going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.
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The American people are beginning to see the Republicans’ willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It’s rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.
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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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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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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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