Country Quote by Laura Moser

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo… to give a voice…

— Shirley Chisholm

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have…

— Andrew Young

I really was going to run for Congress.

— Jon Taffer

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

— John Breaux

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

— Muhammad Ali

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets…

— Emanuel Celler

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

— Deb Haaland

I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too.

— Steve Scalise

I was only the 22nd black woman ever elected to the Texas House, and I wouldn't be here but for people having courage.

— Jasmine Crockett

I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to…

— Ami Bera

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

— Jesse Jackson

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises…

— Dick Gregory