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I want to rebuild America.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
America
Want
Rebuild
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Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Challenges
Impossible
Lying
Magic
Seems
Challenging
Lies
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Productive
Senators
States
Senator
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I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Believe
Country
Thinking
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Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Committed
Coverage
Universal Education
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I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Committed
Coverage
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I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Senate
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It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Men
Doors
White
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It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Black
Impossible
President
Woman
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We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Children
Environment
Failing
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There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Enemy
Interest
Permanent
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We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Community
Development
Infrastructure
Rebuilding
Invest
Communities
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If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Law
Leather Pants
Practice
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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 / Former United States Senator
Black
Illinois
Percent
Population
Vote
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It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Different
Firsts
Levels
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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 / Former United States Senator
Cutting
Giving
People
Pockets
Tax
Bush
Cut
Tax Cut
Working People
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I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
America
Believe
People
Rebuilding
Believe People Will
Believe People America
American People
Resonate
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Inspiring
Freedom
Being Yourself
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Baghdad
Illinois
Indiana
Iraq
Rebuild
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New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Ambassadors
Ministers
New Zealand
Party
Two
Ambassador
Prime Ministers
Zealand
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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?
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Beats
Fighting
Honor
Somebody
Beat
Fight
Pick
Smaller
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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 / Former United States Senator
Colleagues
Color
Helm
Senate
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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 / Former United States Senator
War
Believe
President
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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 / Former United States Senator
Process
Protection
Thinking
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Arena
Competitive
Political Class
Serve
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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 / Former United States Senator
Parent
People
Trying
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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 / Former United States Senator
Giving
Issues
Solutions
Thinking
Frankly
Gives
Problems
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
New Zealand
Ambassador
Concerns
Direction
Headed
Served
Zealand
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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 / Former United States Senator
Burden Of Proof
People
Suffering
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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 / Former United States Senator
Adequate
Capacity
Denial
Ohio
People
Vote
Voting
Absolute
Eligible
For The People
Registered
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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 / Former United States Senator
Confidence
America
Better Tomorrow
Keys
Needs
Notion
Renewal
Spiritual
Thinking
Tomorrow
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Answers
Giving
People
Solutions
Thinking
American People
Suggest
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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 / Former United States Senator
Bills
Generations
Order
Responsibility
Thinking
Assure
Fiscally
Frankly
Future Generations
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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 / Former United States Senator
Bills
Gore
People
Want
Me People Boring
Talk
Al
Al Gore
Basically
Bill
Carol
Short
Skirt
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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 / Former United States Senator
Candidates
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Color
Legacy
Movement
Rights
Thinking
Civil
Non-Traditional
Rights Movement
Whites
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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 / Former United States Senator
Inspirational
Children
Retirement
Accept
Responsibility Children Parents
Inherited
Retirement Security
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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 / Former United States Senator
Country
Economic
Infrastructure
Numbers
Spiritual
Steps
Number
Frankly
Physical
Rebuild
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Believe
Challenges
People
Believe Me People
Big Challenge
Frankly
Paying
Underestimating
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Embrace
Movement
Racism
Rights
Victory
Civil
Unpopular
Generation
Last Century
Rights Movement
Whereas
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There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
War
Snakes
Struggle
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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 / Former United States Senator
Charging
Mean
Phones
Poke
Years
Me People Back
Where Me Keep
Arrest
Tap
Hidden
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Arizona
Notion
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The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Country
Mother
Struggle
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Congress
Campaign
Representative
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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 / Former United States Senator
Experience
Government
Common Sense
International
Local Government
People
Senate
State Government
Bear
Bring
Woman
Committee
Hear
Local
Mention
National
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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 / Former United States Senator
Campaigns
Minorities
Office
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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.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Finance
Campaign Finance
Minorities
Office
Senate
Rules
Shot
Campaign
Elected
Necessary
Non-Traditional
Raise
Skewed
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I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.
Carol Moseley Braun / Former United States Senator
Country
Fighting
Mean
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