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 to….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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

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

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 securit….

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

Im committed to universal health coverage and education..

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

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

I think Americans want to believe in this country again..

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..

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

I want to rebuild America..

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 suppo….

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

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, ….

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

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore..

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection..