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" Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will. "
Claire McCaskill
Security
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. "
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" We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise. "
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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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" 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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Rights
" 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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" You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri. "
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" We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation. "
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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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" 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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" I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington. "
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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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People
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality. "
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