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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
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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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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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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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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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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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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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In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.
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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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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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I think we have to stop using the expression alt-right. It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
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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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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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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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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well
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Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman's health or her life, and if it does, you can't support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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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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