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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

Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
Congressional Staff
Newspaper Editor
Novelist
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Stockbroker
United States Senator
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Barbara Levy Boxer
Barbara Sue Levy Boxer
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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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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me learning disabled. The things people write about me.
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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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If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.
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Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.
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Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
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Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
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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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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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I think we have to stop using the expression alt-right. It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.
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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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Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary.
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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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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
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