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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he’s just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

Barbara Mikulski

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Age Important Safety
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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Legends Pope Supportive
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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Iraq Responsibility War
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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Guy Kind Share
I’m so proud of Maryland’s firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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Firefighter Needs Training
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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Creating Democratic Society
When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.
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Blue Party White
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Ambassadors Country United States
I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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Country Promoting Thinking Women
Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
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Doctors Heart Males
I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
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Guy Kind Way
People aren’t for hitting.
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Hitting People Violence
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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Equal Pay Fighting Passages
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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First Said Wanted
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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Country Melting Pot
Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.
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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he’s just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he’s just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

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