Carol Moseley Braun: “Well, just that politics reflects the culture, not the other way around.”

He was the first candidate to come out and say the war in Iraq was a bad idea. He was the first candidate to come out and say budget deficits were a bad idea. He was the first candidate to talk about unfunded mandates being a bad idea. He…

Well, no, not really I don't. I think it's so early in the process that I hope the Republican Party, I'm a Democrat, but I hope the Republicans have a deeper bench than that, and that they're going to come up with candidates who can really…

I think it`s a very important point. And the fact is -- and to make the point about the Supreme Court, had it not been Thurgood Marshall and the Warren court, my entire life path would have been different.

I don't mean to pick on you. I know Howard Dean can take up for himself. But the fact of the matter is, the 'Congressional Quarterly,' says you voted with President Bush 53 percent of the time, you voted for the Patriot Act, you voted to…