I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

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

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.

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 think Americans want to believe in this country again.

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.

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.