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 BOXERThe 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.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
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The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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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.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.
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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.
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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.
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It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.
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If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, it’s not going to sit well
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