Carol Moseley Braun

Politician

1947-08-16

Carol Moseley Braun is an American politician who became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

Quotes by Carol Moseley Braun

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.
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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.
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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.
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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