Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
BARBARA BOXERSo when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”
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I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.
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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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You take what you’ve learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.
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Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don’t really know what he’s going to do.
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I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
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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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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I’d appreciate it
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.
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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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The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
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