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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.

Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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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 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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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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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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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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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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