"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."

Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician

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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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"We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment."

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"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."

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"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."

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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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"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy."

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"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."

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"Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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