Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes. Barbara Boxer More Quotes by Barbara Boxer More Quotes From Barbara Boxer 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. Barbara Boxer news acting thinking There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact. Barbara Boxer tv-news responsibility facts I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist. Barbara Boxer racist expression thinking I believe in truth-telling. So let's call it what it is. It's very troubling to see people like Bannon who make anti-Semitic remarks, who has a very checkered past be sitting next to the president of the United States. It puts an absolute responsibility on all of us to call it the way we see it and not use expressions like "alt-right." Barbara Boxer responsibility believe past If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy. Barbara Boxer racist language needs I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time. Barbara Boxer enamored presses periods If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section. Barbara Boxer opinion ifs facts I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so. Barbara Boxer political rights war My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience. Barbara Boxer understanding college want I am saying there are women in the Senate, there are women in governorships, there are women in statewide office, there are women in the House, and I do think we can't ignore the fact that we have had the first woman ever win a nomination of a major party and the first woman ever winning the popular vote. So I think the table is set for a woman in the near future. I really do. Barbara Boxer party winning thinking I can't predict if I will see a woman president, but I think I may well because, again, Hillary Clinton got more votes probably than any other Democratic candidate ever, except for Obama. But she got more votes than Trump and she got more votes than Richard Nixon got when he won the election, more votes than John Kennedy got when he won. Barbara Boxer president may thinking 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 party country thinking 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 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 fighting grief america The job is never done and every generation has to fight again. Barbara Boxer generations fighting jobs 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 fighting grief america 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 realizing want kids I don't know how long I'm going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good. Barbara Boxer seeds know-how long 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 kings beautiful children Even though the press at times made me completely crazy as they followed me around the hall, and asked tough questions over and over again - now believe me, every politician feels this way - it is a necessary part of our life, and we must have a press that isn't cowed and won't be afraid of ratings if they get put to the back of the room at a press conference. Barbara Boxer tough-questions crazy believe
