64 Quotes by Carol Moseley Braun

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that’s smaller than you and you beat them, where’s the honor in that?

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don’t have to pay our bills.

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.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers – one from either party.

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.

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.

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.

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

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