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

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

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

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

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

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

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.