Carol Moseley Braun Quotes
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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.
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It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
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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.
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Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
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There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
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New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
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There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
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Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
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I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
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It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
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I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
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The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
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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.
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We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.