We Have Gone Into A War, An

Illinois Has Less Than A 12 Percent Black Population And I Won With 55 Percent Of The Vote.

It's Hard To Be The First. It's Almost As If I'm Subject To A Different Level Of Inspection.

I Think Its Time To Get A Reapportionment Process That Frankly Takes Out The Incumbency Protection And The Raw Politics Of The Process.

People Just Want To Hear Some Common Sense... And I Bring To Bear The Experience In Local Government And State Government And National Government - I Was The First Woman In History On The Senate Finance Committee - Not To Mention The Diplomatic International Experience.

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.