If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It will not be as a maverick, nor even as an idealist. It will be as a signal that maybe, just maybe, people power can still beat the money power. That senators aren't just extensions of parties and presidents, and that politics can be about something more than Democratic toothpaste versus Republican toothpaste. .John Nichols
About This Quote
Barbara Boxer was a strong advocate for women’s rights. However, after she left the Senate she realized it wasn’t enough to be a champion of women’s rights. She realized that she had to take the fight to the men as well. In order to be a champion of women’s rights, she had to hold office as a Democrat.
Without the support of her party, she would not have been able to win elected office. She saw that feminists needed to join forces and become allies with men in order to truly be effective. This quote is about how Barbara Boxer took her work on women’s rights to another level when she became a Senator.
Some Similar Quotes
- Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the...
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
- The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
- One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
- I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.