Barbara Mikulski Quotes

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

As we invest in an infrastructure plan for the future, we must also support our families, our workers, and our communities.

My dad worked for child protection.

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

I dedicated my career to really working in under-served communities and really just being in the trenches.

We should stand up for those who can't protect themselves. Support kids and families who can't support themselves.

I have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.

I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still difficult economic circumstances.

The important thing for the government to do is to help people who cannot help themselves by providing a range of support.

I will continue to fight for our people and businesses that make our community and our nation thrive, they deserve that.

All over the world, independent and strong civil society - NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates - help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most - like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

I've always wanted to work with young people from disadvantaged areas.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.