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.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

I want to rebuild America.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.