64 Quotes by Carol Moseley Braun

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

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

I’ve always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

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

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn’t matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We’re all in the same boat now.

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

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.