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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.

Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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United States Senator
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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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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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I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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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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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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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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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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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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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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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 think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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