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The day you realize you’re a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we’re kids, we don’t have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I’ve got to do something.

Barbara Boxer

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, ‘Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?’ They want that.
BARBARA BOXER

May People Political
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
I’m hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.
BARBARA BOXER

Bills Energy Hopeful
Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don’t really know what he’s going to do.
BARBARA BOXER

Alarmists Knows Trump
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
I am sure that every one of my colleagues “Democrat, Republican, and Independent” agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
BARBARA BOXER

Independent Vote Voting
I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
BARBARA BOXER

Prepared Thinking Way
I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn’t that scary anymore.
BARBARA BOXER

Boxer Chemotherapy Scary
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
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
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
BARBARA BOXER

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

March Security Social Washington
I’ve always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it’s not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me “learning disabled.” The things people write about me.
BARBARA BOXER

Looks People Writing

The day you realize you’re a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we’re kids, we don’t have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I’ve got to do something.

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The day you realize you’re a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we’re kids, we don’t have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I’ve got to do something.

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