The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

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

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.