I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

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'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.

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.

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 not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.