It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

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.

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

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

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.