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I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

Carol Moseley Braun

Education

Health

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

Carol Moseley Braun

President

Woman

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

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.

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.

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

Carol Moseley Braun

Iraq

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

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carol Moseley Braun

Development

Jobs

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

People

Constitution

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.

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

Carol Moseley Braun

Fight

Honor

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.

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.

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.

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.