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

Barbara Mikulski

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
People aren’t for hitting.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Hitting People Violence
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
I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Creating Mind Thinking
I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Close Friend Senior Soon Together
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
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
Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Debacles Happened Hills
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

Badass Dream Issues
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
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
On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Battle Issues Reform
People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that’s a hallmark of a very good leader.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Leader People 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
One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that’s how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate’s history.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Bridge Missing Opportunity

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