Carol Moseley Braun quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. View quote
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I'm committed to universal health coverage and education. View quote
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. View quote
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I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me. (Carol Moseley Braun)
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. View quote
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I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Carol Moseley Braun

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Occupation: American Politician
Born: August 16, 1947
Quotes count: 41
Wikipedia: Carol Moseley Braun

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