Barbara Boxer on expression
Barbara Boxer93 quotes“I think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.”
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I’ve faced the grief, I’ve faced the anger, and I’m ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer 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 BoxerBarbara Boxer If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.
Barbara BoxerBarbara 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 BoxerBarbara Boxer We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer 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 BoxerBarbara Boxer Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer 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 BoxerBarbara Boxer The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.
Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer 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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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
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Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
Rose KennedyRose Kennedy There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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