Political Quotes

“When I went to law school, I can only remember one woman in my law school class. I went to George Washington. It was a large class. Women didn't go to law school much in those days. A few years later, I took the bar. It was a small group of men studying for the bar in Nevada. There may have been a couple women, but that was it. When I came to the Senate, Mikulski was the woman. She still is. Since that time, we have had the good fortune of having a significant number of women elected to the Senate. Fortunately, most of them are on this side of the aisle. The Senate is a much better place because of women being here. The legal profession is a better profession now because of women being in it. Because as much as we joke about it, men and women are different. They think differently. I can testify to that as a result of having served in the Senate with a meager number of women and now with a significant number. The Senate would only be better if there were more women. I extend my appreciation to Patty Murray, a woman of great stature, somebody who has persevered on an issue that when she started it, she was alone. She stood up during our battles we had here in recent years on asbestos liability, with her eyes pointed toward one thing this country should do, and that is not allow the importation of asbestos. That now has happened. Barbara Boxer, a kind, thoughtful person she is, with a heart as big as anybody's heart in the Senate.”