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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

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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Facts News Responsibility TV
We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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Children Country Equality
I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’
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March Security Social Washington
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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Democracy Giving Hands
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
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Artist Golf Writing
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.
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Political Rights War
There’s a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.
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Attitude Differences Taken
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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Military Moving Running
When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it’s a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.
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Book Children Thinking
The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
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Critical Looks Time
It is in Saudi Arabia’s best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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Country Office Running Vote Women
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.
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Independent Vote Voting
Our message will be that we’re going to make federal government buildings a model – an energy-efficient model – and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.
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Cities Government Messages
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”
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Editors Pieces Writing
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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Domestic Mean Support Violence
I think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.
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Expression Racist Thinking
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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Commitment Country Destruction War
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Believe Military Respect
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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Addresses Country President
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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Environmental Fighting Justice
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.
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Majority Reform Waiting
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It’s not good enough to think, ‘This is the best we can expect from this president’.
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Past Rights Thinking
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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Country Military Past
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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Bully Loses Raised
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.
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Interest Oil Rip Special
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.
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Law Police Safety
If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they’re little boys, they’ve been wanting to be President.
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Boys Men President

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.

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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.

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