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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

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate… We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman’s right to choose
BARBARA BOXER

Issues Quality Together
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
BARBARA BOXER

Appreciate Senator Titles
If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don’t put it in the facts section.
BARBARA BOXER

Fact Facts Opinion Section
We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we’ve made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Progress Treasure
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 we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.
BARBARA BOXER

Expression Racist Thinking
I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.
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Enamored Periods Presses
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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Care Decision Medical
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Majority Reform Waiting
The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.
BARBARA BOXER

Domestic Mean Support Violence
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Issues People Scary
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn’t be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Job People
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
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

Bully Loses Raised
I’m a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.
BARBARA BOXER

Bigs Collaboration Teamwork
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, ‘Please don’t write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it’s bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.’
BARBARA BOXER

Children Day Inspiring Mother

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

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