Carol Moseley Braun Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspirational, Retirement, Children

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• 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

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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.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Government, People, Common Sense

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

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Illinois, Black, Population

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Spiritual, Country, Numbers

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

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Believe, America, People

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• 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

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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.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Responsibility, Thinking, Order

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• I was very productive as a senator for my state.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  States, Senators, Productive

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

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Jobs, Community, Development

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• 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

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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.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  People, Want, Bills

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• I want to rebuild America.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  America, Want

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