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.
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.
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
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.
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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 rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create 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.
I was very productive as a senator for my state.
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.
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.
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.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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.
I want to rebuild America.
