Barbara Boxer quote: "There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship. There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country."

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER

If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be...
BARBARA BOXER

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 t...
BARBARA BOXER

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must ...
BARBARA BOXER

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated wi...
BARBARA BOXER

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
BARBARA BOXER

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard t...
BARBARA BOXER

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sac...
BARBARA BOXER

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's ...
BARBARA BOXER

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they shoul...
BARBARA BOXER

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and th...
BARBARA BOXER

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, an...
BARBARA BOXER

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll ...
BARBARA BOXER

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them ...
BARBARA BOXER

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environme...
BARBARA BOXER

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. ...
BARBARA BOXER

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy right...
BARBARA BOXER

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, &#...
BARBARA BOXER

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But,...
BARBARA BOXER

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sw...
BARBARA BOXER

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, no...
BARBARA BOXER

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democrac...
BARBARA BOXER

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that...
BARBARA BOXER

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and t...
BARBARA BOXER

I would hope we would give equal attention to other factors,
BARBARA BOXER

[FEMA told her staff that this was] standard operation procedure, ... standard operating procedure i...
BARBARA BOXER

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to p...
BARBARA BOXER

They will experience some increased anxiety ... going to school. They will be more frightened than t...
BARBARA BOXER

This is a pattern here of what I see from you, ... It's very troubling. ... It's hard for me to let ...
BARBARA BOXER

What you're seeing with that mom trying to meet with President Bush is echoes of Vietnam. Because no...
BARBARA BOXER

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy right...
BARBARA BOXER

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security...
BARBARA BOXER

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's ec...
BARBARA BOXER

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this...
BARBARA BOXER

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please...
BARBARA BOXER

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia&...
BARBARA BOXER

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like t...
BARBARA BOXER

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. ...
BARBARA BOXER

To call a doctor an executioner is wrong.
BARBARA BOXER

I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether t...
BARBARA BOXER

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm ...
BARBARA BOXER

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americ...
BARBARA BOXER

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the c...
BARBARA BOXER

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win ...
BARBARA BOXER

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, ...
BARBARA BOXER

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to m...
BARBARA BOXER

The president has selected a loyal political ally without a judicial record to sit on the highest co...
BARBARA BOXER

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in ...
BARBARA BOXER

They are going to feel very frightened and anxious.
BARBARA BOXER

He's a wonderful uncle to my grandchild, and Hillary's a wonderful aunt to my grandchild, so I have ...
BARBARA BOXER

Dick Cheney is a nice man. He has a nice demeanor, and he's nice to talk to, and all that's very imp...
BARBARA BOXER

I think it's pathetic ... if true,
BARBARA BOXER

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
BARBARA BOXER

My publisher couldn't believe the timing,
BARBARA BOXER

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't ha...
BARBARA BOXER

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many iss...
BARBARA BOXER

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them ...
BARBARA BOXER

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I...
BARBARA BOXER

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
BARBARA BOXER

In February, we'll be back to council with alternate options because funding is an issue. We'll need...
BOB BOXER

We're trying to keep all the plates spinning before they hit the floor. We try not to load up a year...
BOB BOXER

You need those services to be 'on'. I have come to expect 99.9 per cent uptime, and when a service c...
DAVID BOXER

You need those services to be 'on.' I have come to expect 99.9 per cent uptime, and when a service c...
DAVID BOXER

You need those services to be 'on.' I have come to expect 99.9 percent uptime, and when a service cr...
DAVID BOXER

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
JACK JOHNSON (BOXER)

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS

I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER

You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER

Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK

All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON

I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL

We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL

There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL

I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL

I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ...
BARBARA MANDRELL

In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
BARBARA MANDRELL

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship. There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

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Barbara Boxer

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship. There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

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