The reason that minorities and women dont 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.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

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.

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.

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.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.