![Barbara Mikulski Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/in-my-state-maryland-weve-lost-jobs-to-nafta-we-di-683x1024.jpg)
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
Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/his-great-passion-for-education-and-making-sure-pe-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/nancy-kassebaum-and-i-worked-on-a-womens-health-ag-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - My own father had died of Alzheimer’s. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/my-own-father-had-died-of-alzheimers-george-mitche-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/senator-paul-sarbanes-really-was-a-big-help-to-me--683x1024.jpg)
