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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

Barbara Mikulski

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
BARBARA MIKULSKI

America Military Rights
What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It’s about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Community Goes On People
My own father had died of Alzheimer’s. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Alzheimer Father Thinking
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Goes Ideas On Thinking
I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he’s just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Glasses Hero Moving
People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that’s a hallmark of a very good leader.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Leader People Thinking
I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Promoting Thinking Women
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

People Rich Years
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Battle Issues Reform
You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Cant Pay Survival Symbol
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Ambassadors Country United States
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It’s the stuff of legends. And now it’s the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Looks Together Two
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Job Minimum Wage
There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Arms Social Together
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Family Survival Symbols
Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Doctors Heart Males

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