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When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Barbara Mikulski

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I’ll be voting for a woman for president.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Believe Office Voting
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
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Retirement Senior Sick
In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Believe Helping Others Volunteer
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Melting Pot
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Equal Pay Fighting Passages
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Creating Democratic Society
College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
BARBARA MIKULSKI

College Dream Financial
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Guy Kind Share
People aren’t for hitting.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Hitting People Violence
Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Debacles Happened Hills
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

First Said Wanted
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Legends Pope Supportive
George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we’d go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He’s the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Goes Ideas On Thinking
I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Creating Mind Thinking
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
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 Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Heathers Thinking Wife
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Able Doctors Redemption
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
I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Hurt Social
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
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’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Coming Double Out Standard
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
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

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

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