Claire McCaskill Quotes

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As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to

As a member of the Aging Committee, I’m no stranger to fighting for America’s seniors.
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I’m asking regular folks to be my super PAC.
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You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.
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I don’t know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.
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Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.
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I’m going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I’m going to fight Republicans when they’re doing things that I think are damaging.
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When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system – the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
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Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience – and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
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If you look through history, all of the great work we’ve done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
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We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
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We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I’m not sure that our federal government can afford that.
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Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
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I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don’t trust government. And they haven‘t trusted government for a long time.
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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I’m the only United States Senator in the country that I’m aware of that’s had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
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I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
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Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don’t have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.
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No commander in chief would ever say, ‘I’m not going to listen to the guys on the ground.’
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Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don’t have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that’s a problem… We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.
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Well, I’m wrestling alligators.
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When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I’ve just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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The Missourians I hear from just don’t buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically alter Medicare and Social Security.
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We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that’s where women have to break through.
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I think I’m the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won‘t take earmarks.
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You know, we’ve got to be responsible about our debt. We don’t want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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