I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.
Barbara BoxerWe have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
Barbara BoxerMedical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Barbara BoxerUnfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that I've seen that he's made about Jewish people, about black people - they're all very troubling to me - even though he sort of said, "Oh, I distance myself from hate and don't do any of this hating stuff."
Barbara BoxerReally, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
Barbara BoxerWhen 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