Mazie Hirono Quotes

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Mazie Hirono

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 3, 1947

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

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There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

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Sometimes, I just, I say various things.

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I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.

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Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

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The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

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Nobody is entitled to a promotion to the Supreme Court.

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I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.

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The thing about immigrants is the people who come to this country with that kind of drive? They are risk-takers. And we need risk-takers who want to improve their lives, create jobs and do those things that add to the dynamism of our economy.

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Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there's a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh.

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Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.

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I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.

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Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

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We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.

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There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

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Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

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I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.

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I always saw my mother just making decisions that helped our family. It was much later when I realized how courageous she really was, and I came to understand what a risk-taker she was. That's very much a part of how I am.

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I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn't go down that path.

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To me, Stephen Miller is like Iago whispering in the president's ear, along with John Kelly. These people are totally anti-immigrant.

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