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I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

Barbara Boxer

You take what you’ve learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.
BARBARA BOXER

Down Keep Learn Work
Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman’s health or her life, and if it does, you can’t support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Issues Support
There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
BARBARA BOXER

Bravery Country Fear War
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
BARBARA BOXER

Behaviour Optimist Politics
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman’s right to choose, a good public education system.
BARBARA BOXER

Dream Fighting Thinking
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
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?
BARBARA BOXER

Environmental Oil Thinking
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Attitude Differences Taken
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
BARBARA BOXER

Country Dignity Thinking
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Fighting Grief
The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
BARBARA BOXER

Fighting Generations Jobs
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.
BARBARA BOXER

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

Bed Husband Politician
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
BARBARA BOXER

Gratitude Hands Sacrifice
The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we’ve always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Safe Want
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

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