It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
BARBARA BOXERIt’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
More Barbara Boxer Quotes
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The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They’re not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.
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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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The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we’ve always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
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Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.
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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement
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I would not run for president. I really like what I’m doing now. People say I’m giving them energy and hope.
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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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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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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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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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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn’t be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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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
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
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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.
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The American people are beginning to see the Republicans’ willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It’s rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.
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