Carol Moseley Braun quotes

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now. (Carol Moseley Braun)
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The reason that minorities and women don't 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. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think Americans want to believe in this country again. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
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. View quote
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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. (Carol Moseley Braun)
New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. View quote
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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. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
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. View quote
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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
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. View quote
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I was very productive as a senator for my state. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs. (Carol Moseley Braun)
I want to rebuild America. View quote
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There's a word, and the word is called misogynoir. And that word describes the double whammy that women of color have to face: You're vulnerable on the issue of gender, and you're vulnerable on the issue of race. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President. View quote
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