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.
BARBARA BOXERThe 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.
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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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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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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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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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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.”
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You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I’m a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.
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Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.
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Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
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I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.
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