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College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

Barbara Mikulski

Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he’s swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as ‘dancing with the stars.’ And we had this great rock ‘n’ roll fund raiser.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Men Stars Thinking
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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Guy Kind Share
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
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.
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Badass Dream Issues
George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
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Guy Jealous Leader
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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America Military Rights
What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It’s about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
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Community Goes On People
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 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
You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Cant Pay Survival Symbol
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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Country Elect Help Maryland People Sense Thinking
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.
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Borders Jobs Thinking
When you’re up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it’s looking right at you; it’s a different viewpoint.
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Different Mean Viewpoint
Politics is social work with power.
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Philanthropy Social Work
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It’s the stuff of legends. And now it’s the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
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Looks Together Two
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
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
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.
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Heathers Thinking Wife
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
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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Bankruptcy Government Responsibility
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
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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Change Differences Making Mind
There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
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Arms Social Together
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Bob Giving Way
I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
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Coming Double Out Standard
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.
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Glasses Hero Moving
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Opportunity Passion School

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