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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Barbara Mikulski

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
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Count Every Person Vote
My own father had died of Alzheimer’s. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Alzheimer Father Thinking
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It’s the stuff of legends. And now it’s the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

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

Creating Democratic Society
We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting – our shoulders square, our lipstick on – because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Fighting Hard Square Work
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
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 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
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
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
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Political Retirement Senior
I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn’t get any better than that from here on.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Elect Help Maryland People Sense Thinking
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Iraq Responsibility War
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Guy Kind Way
His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that’s what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Opportunity Passion School

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