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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

It is in Saudi Arabia’s best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
BARBARA BOXER

Country Office Running Vote Women
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Acting News Thinking
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement
BARBARA BOXER

Commitment Country Destruction War
The Saudi government’s denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia’s economic development, modernization and prosperity.
BARBARA BOXER

Government Hurt Rights
Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman’s health or her life, and if it does, you can’t support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Issues Support
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Party People Years
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
Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don’t really know what he’s going to do.
BARBARA BOXER

Alarmists Knows Trump
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
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
The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we’ve always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
BARBARA BOXER

Abortion Safe Want
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
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.
BARBARA BOXER

Environmental Fighting Justice
I’ve gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
BARBARA BOXER

Gone Loss Victory
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
BARBARA BOXER

Country Dignity Thinking
There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
BARBARA BOXER

Facts News Responsibility TV

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