Carol Moseley Braun

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge…

— Carol Moseley Braun

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn…

— Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I…

— Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

— Carol Moseley Braun

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

— Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just…

— Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short…

— Carol Moseley Braun

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of…

— Carol Moseley Braun

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

— Carol Moseley Braun

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

— 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…

— Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

— Carol Moseley Braun

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that.

— Carol Moseley Braun

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

— Carol Moseley Braun

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no…

— Carol Moseley Braun