black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.

Barbara Boxer

I don’t know how long I’m going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.
BARBARA BOXER

How Know Long Seeds
I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
BARBARA BOXER

Prepared Thinking Way
The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.
BARBARA BOXER

Action Fact Louder Matter Speak Words
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
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
BARBARA BOXER

Democracy Giving Hands
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
BARBARA BOXER

Home Life Privacy
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”
BARBARA BOXER

Editors Pieces Writing
In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Democracy Threatened
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It’s not good enough to think, ‘This is the best we can expect from this president’.
BARBARA BOXER

Past Rights Thinking
So 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.
BARBARA BOXER

Interest Oil Rip Special
Our message will be that we’re going to make federal government buildings a model – an energy-efficient model – and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.
BARBARA BOXER

Cities Government Messages
In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman’s right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.
BARBARA BOXER

Brother Pregnancy Simple
If it’s racist, it’s racist. If it’s anti-Semitic, it’s anti-Semitic. If it’s anti-women, it’s anti-women. If it’s anti-immigrant, it’s anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.
BARBARA BOXER

Language Needs Racist
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
BARBARA BOXER

Essence Go Letting Mean
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Challenges Earth People
It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
BARBARA BOXER

Born Brooklyn Care

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Barbara Boxer Quotes