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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

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

" 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

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Constitution

" 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. "

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

" Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me. "

" 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. "

" 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

Country

Economic

" I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that. "

" 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. "