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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Barbara Boxer

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
BARBARA BOXER

Facts News Responsibility TV
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, ‘Please don’t write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it’s bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.’
BARBARA BOXER

Children Day Inspiring Mother
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Kids Realizing Want
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
BARBARA BOXER

Behaviour Optimist Politics
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Domestic Mean Support Violence
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.
BARBARA BOXER

Addresses Country President
You stand up to bullies. Don’t shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Bully Fighting Politician
I’m not leaving the fight just because I decided not to run. I’m going to expand my political action committee and volunteer for it. I’m going to do lots of other things where I will have a voice. So I’m not leaving the fight.
BARBARA BOXER

Fighting Running Voice
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.
BARBARA BOXER

College Understanding Want
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Everything Leadership Mean Want
We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we’ve made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Progress Treasure
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
BARBARA BOXER

Law Police Safety
The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
BARBARA BOXER

Critical Looks Time
I’m hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.
BARBARA BOXER

Bills Energy Hopeful
I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
BARBARA BOXER

March Security Social Washington
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
BARBARA BOXER

Earth Facts Records

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

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