Quote

People aren't for hitting.

Barbara Mikulski

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Hitting
Aren
Violence
People

More quotes by Barbara Mikulski

Image
Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you it's a different viewpoint.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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
Barbara Mikulski
Image
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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
Barbara Mikulski
Image
George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
Barbara Mikulski
Image
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.
Barbara Mikulski