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

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.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

I want to rebuild America.

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.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.