I’ve been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.
BARBARA BOXERMy 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.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I’m not leaving the fight just because I decided not to run. I’m going to expand my political action committee and volunteer for it. I’m going to do lots of other things where I will have a voice. So I’m not leaving the fight.
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There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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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.
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You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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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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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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.
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I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.
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Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.
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