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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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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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You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
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Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
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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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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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Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.
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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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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable
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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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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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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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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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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
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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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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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