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We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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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 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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I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
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Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
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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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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 am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
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In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.
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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you it's a different viewpoint.
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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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People aren't for hitting.
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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
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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 would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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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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