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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable
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Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity
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Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.
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I am sure that every one of my colleagues Democrat, Republican, and Independent agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
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I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
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I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
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It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.
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Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record
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If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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I believe in truth-telling. So let's call it what it is. It's very troubling to see people like Bannon who make anti-Semitic remarks, who has a very checkered past be sitting next to the president of the United States. It puts an absolute responsibility on all of us to call it the way we see it and not use expressions like alt-right.
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I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.
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You stand up to bullies. Don't shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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