You stand up to bullies. Don’t shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.
BARBARA BOXERThere has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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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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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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The Saudi government’s denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia’s economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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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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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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I’m a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.
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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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It’s good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers
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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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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
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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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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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