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
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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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