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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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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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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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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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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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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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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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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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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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People aren't for hitting.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
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