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Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
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In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn't get any better than that from here on.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
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I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.
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There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.
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George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq
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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.
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