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Carol Moseley Braun Quotes


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.

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.

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

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

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.

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

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.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

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.

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.

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

I want to rebuild America.

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'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

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

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

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

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