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College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
Politician
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United States Senator
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Baltimore
Maryland
Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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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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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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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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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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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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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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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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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 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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People aren't for hitting.
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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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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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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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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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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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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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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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