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.
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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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Politics is social work with power.
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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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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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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
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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.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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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.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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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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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.
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I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I’ll be voting for a woman for president.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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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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