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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.

Barbara Mikulski

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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Doctors Heart Males
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Country Safety Senior
George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Guy Jealous Leader
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 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
Politics is social work with power.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Philanthropy Social Work
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Integrity Thinking Whole
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
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 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
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Count Every Person Vote
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Political Retirement Senior
We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

People Rich Years
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
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

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