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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 Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
BARBARA BOXER

March Security Social Washington
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
BARBARA BOXER

Gratitude Hands Sacrifice
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
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
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
The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
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Critical Looks Time
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
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.
BARBARA BOXER

Addresses Country President
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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Majority Reform Waiting
I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
BARBARA BOXER

Prepared Thinking Way
When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it’s a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.
BARBARA BOXER

Book Children Thinking
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one’s retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
BARBARA BOXER

Pieces Retirement Thinking
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
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
BARBARA BOXER

Behaviour Optimist Politics
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
The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
BARBARA BOXER

Citizens Effort People
Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
BARBARA BOXER

Iraq Peace War
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 think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.
BARBARA BOXER

Expression Racist Thinking
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.
BARBARA BOXER

College Understanding Want
The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers
BARBARA BOXER

Change Country White
You stand up to bullies. Don’t shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.
BARBARA BOXER

Bully Fighting Politician
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
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God, I’m still alive.’ But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
BARBARA BOXER

Funny Stupid Thanksgiving
Since 1980, we’ve used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They’re in the Congressional Record
BARBARA BOXER

Earth Facts Records
If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don’t put it in the facts section.
BARBARA BOXER

Fact Facts Opinion Section
[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
BARBARA BOXER

Bed Husband Politician

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.

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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.

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