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" I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington. "
Claire McCaskill
Day
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Washington
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" I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you? "
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" The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. "
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" It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams. "
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" All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well. "
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" What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test. "
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" I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more. "
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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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" There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy. "
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" Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. "
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" It's very American, making a lot of money. "
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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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" 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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Security
Know
" Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. "
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" When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door. "
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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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" Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly. "
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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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