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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
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United States Senator
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Brooklyn
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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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The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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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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Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
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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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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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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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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
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