Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun, is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first and to date only female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first and to date only female Senator from Illinois. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 August 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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.
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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.
It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.
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 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.
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.