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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.

Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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Baltimore
Maryland
Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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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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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 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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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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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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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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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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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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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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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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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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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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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 truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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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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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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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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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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