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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
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.
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we’d go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He’s the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/george-mitchell-introduced-the-idea-that-wed-go-on-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)
![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)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/i-think-paul-sarbanes-and-his-wife-christine-socia-683x1024.jpg)
