Barbs Quote by Barbara Mikulski

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

— Richard Holbrooke

I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.

— Barbara Mikulski

I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul…

— Barbara Mikulski

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of…

— Julie London

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

— Mark Shriver

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

— Iris DeMent

I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.

— Michael Korda

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three…

— Warren Farrell

I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a…

— Maura Tierney

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need…

— Elisabeth Shue

Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had…

— Aretha Franklin

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old…

— Angus King