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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Barbara Mikulski

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Bankruptcy Government Responsibility
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.
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Close Friend Senior Soon Together
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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Change Differences Making Mind
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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Doctors Heart Males
Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Careers College Community
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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Integrity Thinking Whole
When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.
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Blue Party White
My own father had died of Alzheimer’s. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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Alzheimer Father Thinking
I’m so proud of Maryland’s firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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Firefighter Needs Training
College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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College Dream Financial
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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Family Survival Symbols
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
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Country Hurt Social
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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Country Job Minimum Wage
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.
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Battle Issues Reform
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Ambassadors Country United States
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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Retirement Senior Sick
Politics is social work with power.
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Philanthropy Social Work
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I’ll be voting for a woman for president.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Believe Office Voting
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.
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Believe Helping Others Volunteer
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.
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Fighting Hard Square Work
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Age Important Safety
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.
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Fighting United States Years
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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First Said Wanted
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.
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Opportunity Passion School
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.
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Leader People Thinking
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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Able Doctors Redemption
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

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