We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

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.

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

I want to rebuild America.

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

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.