Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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I held out my hand and George Mitchell said, "Like in everything else, you lead and I'll follow." And the crowd broke up, and we did a twirl or two around the dance floor. And that's like him, you know, he was there for his members, he campaigned for us, he believed in us, and he was really a good sport as well.
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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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People aren't for hitting.
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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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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 wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.
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We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
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I won't stop there, ... I will continue to pursue getting the best advice possible.
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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 think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.
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We in Maryland are hot. We are absolutely hot about these gas prices.
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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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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, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.
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I'll be looking for some co-sponsorship in the House, and I hope to get at least part of it passed in September, but I think it's going to take at least 18 months to get all the way there, ... It will take this session and part of the next to get it all done.
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Politics is social work with power.
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All of a sudden they're saying that a woman who was able to become head of the Texas Bar Association isn't qualified.
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This decision is among the top two that we're called upon to make.