Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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