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“We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.”
“We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.”
“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.”
“Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?”
“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.”
“I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that.”
“New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.”
“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.”
“Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.”
“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.”
“I want to rebuild America.”
“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.”
“I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.”
“I think Americans want to believe in this country again.”
“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.”
“I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.”
“Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.”