Carol Moseley Braun famous quotes

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Lying #Challenges #Magic

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Enemy #Interest

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Inspirational #Retirement #Children

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Freedom #Challenges #Faces

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

#Thinking #Protection #Process

I was very productive as a senator for my state.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#States #Productive

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#War #Believe #President

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Committed #Coverage #Health Coverage

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 tiresome.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#People #Suffering #Black

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#People #Parent #Trying

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Thinking #Rights #Color

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Responsibility #Thinking #Order

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Thinking #People #Giving

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Spiritual #Thinking #Keys

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Country #Believe #Thinking

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

#Color #Helm #Colleagues

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 have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Believe #People #Challenges

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

#Black #President #Impossible

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Government #Common Sense #People

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Spiritual #Country #Numbers

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Children #Environment #Failing

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Jobs #Community #Development

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Men #Doors #White

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Illinois #Iraq #Baghdad

I want to rebuild America.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#America #Want

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

#Fighting #Honor #Beats

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

#Cutting #People #Giving

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Thinking #Issues #Giving

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Party #Two #Ambassadors

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Ohio #People #Voting

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

#Believe #America #People

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

#Illinois #Black #Population

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Rights #Racism #Victory

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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Mean #Phones #Years

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. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#People #Want #Bills

The reason that minorities and women dont 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.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Office #Campaigns #Minorities