Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
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… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
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… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
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… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
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.… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share
