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We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Barbara Mikulski

In my state [ Maryland] we’ve lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it’s very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Borders Jobs Thinking
I didn’t know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Jobs Know Nafta Suspious
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Safety Senior
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

Glasses Hero Moving
There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Arms Social Together
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Creating Democratic Society
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Political Retirement Senior
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

First Said Wanted
You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Cant Pay Survival Symbol
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Fighting United States Years
Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Debacles Happened Hills
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
BARBARA MIKULSKI

America Military Rights
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Melting Pot
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Doctors Heart Males
I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Coming Double Out Standard
I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Integrity Thinking Whole

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