American - Politician | August 16, 1947 -
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Carol Moseley Braun
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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.
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It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
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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?
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I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
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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.
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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.
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We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
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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.
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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.
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I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.
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I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.
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