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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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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
Politician
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Baltimore
Maryland
Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
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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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Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
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I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.
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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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We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!
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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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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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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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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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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 wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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