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It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 11
Congressional Staff
Newspaper Editor
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Politician
Stockbroker
United States Senator
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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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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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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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate 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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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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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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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 think being prepared for anything is the way to go.
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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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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience.
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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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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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Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
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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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There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
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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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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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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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