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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More Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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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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College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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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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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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People aren’t for hitting.
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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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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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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.
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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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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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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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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.
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