Quotes from Carol Moseley Braun

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

I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me.

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

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

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.

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.

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

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

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.

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.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

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.

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.

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.

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

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

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

I want to rebuild America.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

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

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.