Barbara Boxer Quotes

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

We can restore liberty by taking government out of our bedrooms, our bloodstreams, our bladders, our brains, our businesses and our back-pockets.

Keep big government out of our bedrooms.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Is there anything in the existing condition that makes the duty of Congress to put the liberty of all the people of the United States in jeopardy?... Are we going to take up the question of what a man shall eat and what a man shall drink, and put him under severe penalties if he is eating or drinking something different from what the chemists of the Agricultural Department think desirable?

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

I object to Parliament trying to regulate private morality in matters which only affects the person who commits the offence.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

We must not let politicians who believe they are above the Constitution interfere with the personal health decisions of women. It is the job of a woman, not a politician, to make informed decisions about her own pregnancy.

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.