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 BOXERThe combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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The day you realize you’re a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we’re kids, we don’t have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I’ve got to do something.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn’t that scary anymore.
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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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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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The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They’re not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.
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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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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 would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
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I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.
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The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.
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I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won’t be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we’re not acting on information.
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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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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight – the fight for electoral justice.
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