We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
Barbara Boxer[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Barbara BoxerI 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