You take what you’ve learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.
BARBARA BOXERI am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we’ve always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
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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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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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When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it’s a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.
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The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
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Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he’s just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets – you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It’s scary.
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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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I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.
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I think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.
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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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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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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.
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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.
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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I’m going to fight for you. I’m going to fight for what’s right. I’m going to fight to hold people accountable
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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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