Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

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

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
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