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

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

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.

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