The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.
BARBARA BOXERSome people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.
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In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
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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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It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
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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.
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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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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
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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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Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.
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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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The American people are beginning to see the Republicans’ willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It’s rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.
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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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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn’t that scary anymore.
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