Barbara Boxer Quotes

Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.

Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary.

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.

In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.

I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.

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.

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.

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.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.