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“Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.”
- Barbara Mikulski,
- in Congressional Record (1971)
“We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.”
- Barbara Mikulski,
- speech (1974)
“The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.”
- Barbara Mikulski,
- in Barbara Peters and Victoria Samuels, eds., Dialogue on Diversity (1976)
“People aren't for hitting.”
- Barbara Mikulski,
- in Ann Landers, The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, vol. 2 (1978)
“America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.”
- Barbara Mikulski,
- in Suzanne Levine and Harriet Lyons, The Decade of Women (1980)
“Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.”
- Barbara Mikulski,
- in Dorothy W. Cantor and Toni Bernay With Jean Stoess, Women in Power (1992)

(1936)

Full name: Barbara Ann Mikulski.