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.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

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

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

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

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

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.