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"Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families."
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations."

"When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market."

"America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq."

"Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no."

"I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty."

"I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better."

"I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare."

"College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families."

"I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe."
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