I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
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.
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.
I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me.
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
I was very productive as a senator for my state.
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.
I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
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.
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.
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.
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.
