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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. "

Claire McCaskill

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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 need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities. "

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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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" 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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" Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. "

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" I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC. "

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" Well, I'm wrestling alligators. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington. "

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" As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors. "

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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 was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. "

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" It's very American, making a lot of money. "

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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. "

Claire McCaskill

" When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door. "

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" You never know what'll happen in politics. "

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" You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress. "

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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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" My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work. "

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" I am a small-town girl. "

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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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" I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity. "

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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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" 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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" I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. "

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