Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.