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

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

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 s….

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..

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 ….

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….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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….

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 cou….

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

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

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

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

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 that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to ….

I want to rebuild America..

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..