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Barbara Boxer Quotes

born 1940 United States

Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for California's 6th congressional district from 1983 until 1993.

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The more I have been attacked for my views and actions, the more I've stood up to it, and the more support I have received.

First, there are good people out there; they just don’t make so much of a racket. Second, if you don’t make waves, then the bad guys don’t get washed overboard. And third, nobody bothers to bad-mouth you unless they’re afraid of you. So think of it as kind of a compliment.

There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Boxer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.