Carol Moseley Braun quotes
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“Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.”
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“There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.”
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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.”
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“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
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“I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.”
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“I was very productive as a senator for my state.”
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“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.”
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“Im committed to universal health coverage and education.”
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“I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“I think Americans want to believe in this country again.”
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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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“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.”
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“It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.”
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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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“There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.”
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“We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.”
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“We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.”
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“It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.”
-- Carol Moseley BraunSource : "It's time to take the men-only sign off the White House door" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2003.
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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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“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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“Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.”
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“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.”
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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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“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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“I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.”
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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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“The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.”
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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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“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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“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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