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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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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
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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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The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
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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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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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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement
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The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
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It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.
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I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.
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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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Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose
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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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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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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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