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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
Politician
Social Worker
United States Senator
University Teacher
Baltimore
Maryland
Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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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 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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I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
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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 think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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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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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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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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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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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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