Barbara Boxer Quotes

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.

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.

You stand up to bullies. Don’t shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won’t be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we’re not acting on information.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

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

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don’t put it in the facts section.

I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’

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

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, ‘Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?’ They want that.