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Carol Moseley Braun
August 16, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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 think Americans want to believe in this country again.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

   

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 want to rebuild America.

   

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 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 the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

   

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

   

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