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I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

Barbara Mikulski

Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Careers College Community
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Goes Ideas On Thinking
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Arms Social Together
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Count Every Person Vote
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
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Bankruptcy Government Responsibility
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
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Age Important Safety
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Legends Pope Supportive
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Equal Pay Fighting Passages
I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Creating Mind Thinking
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Community Goes On People
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Retirement Senior Sick
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.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Fighting United States Years
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
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

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