I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
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.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
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.
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.
I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
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.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
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.
I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers – one from either party.
Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
I was very productive as a senator for my state.
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
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.
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.
It’s hard to be the first. It’s almost as if I’m subject to a different level of inspection.
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.