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 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.

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

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

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

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

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

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 had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.