Latest Barbara Boxer Quotes from Interviews

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• Every American at some point has got to make the connection between their own hopes and dreams and who is elected to office. It's essential. It's very easy to pull the covers up over your head and say, "I can't handle it. Too much." But we just have to handle it and we have to accept that it's our job. Each of us. Nobody is going to take care of it.

  Barbara Boxer

  Dream, Jobs, Office

  Source: progressive.org

• You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

  Barbara Boxer

  Optimist

  Source: progressive.org

• The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we don't have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I've got to do something.

  Barbara Boxer

  Kids, Want, Realizing

  Source: progressive.org

• When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of. But I realized that I had to get involved. Then, when Martin Luther King was assassinated and the Vietnam War was raging, I felt that my world was falling apart. I had these two beautiful children - three and one - and I just said, "I have to make it better."

  Barbara Boxer

  Beautiful, Kings, Children

  Source: progressive.org

• If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

  Barbara Boxer

  Men, Boys, President

  Source: progressive.org

• There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Issues, Rights

  Source: progressive.org

• There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

  Barbara Boxer

  Attitude, Taken, Differences

  Source: progressive.org

• The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

  Barbara Boxer

  Abortion, Safe, Want

  Source: progressive.org

• Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman's health or her life, and if it does, you can't support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.

  Barbara Boxer

  Issues, Abortion, Support

  Source: progressive.org

• In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.

  Barbara Boxer

  America, Democracy, Threatened

  Source: progressive.org

• I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we've got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we've got to start moving out.

  Barbara Boxer

  Running, Military, Moving

  Source: progressive.org

• It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

  Barbara Boxer

  Brooklyn, Care, Born

  Source: progressive.org

• I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

  Barbara Boxer

  Patriotic, America, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: progressive.org

• I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.

  Barbara Boxer

  Writing, People, Looks

  Source: progressive.org

• I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.

  Barbara Boxer

  Bully, Raised, Loses

  Source: progressive.org

• The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.

  Barbara Boxer

  Party, Wings, People

  Source: progressive.org

• The Democratic Party has awakened. We've not been awake since 9/11, in many ways. We had moments, sporadically, where we woke up. But I think we were so hit by 9/11, as the whole country was, that we didn't get our legs back. It took a while. Now the Democratic Party is back. I've never seen it as united. Sure, we have a ways to go. We have a lot of ground to cover.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

• The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.

  Barbara Boxer

  Party, Years, People

  Source: progressive.org

• I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

  Barbara Boxer

  Grief, Fighting, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

  Barbara Boxer

  Down And

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

  Barbara Boxer

  Jobs, Fighting, Generations

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.

  Barbara Boxer

  Grief, Fighting, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

  Barbara Boxer

  Loss, Victory, Gone

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.

  Barbara Boxer

  Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Matter, Facts

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Unfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that I've seen that he's made about Jewish people, about black people - they're all very troubling to me - even though he sort of said, "Oh, I distance myself from hate and don't do any of this hating stuff."

  Barbara Boxer

  Hate, Distance, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com