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" Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. "

Claire McCaskill

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" I am a small-town girl. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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

" 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? "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns. "

Claire McCaskill

" The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. "

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

" Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

" I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks. "

Claire McCaskill

" All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

" Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly. "

Claire McCaskill

" The U.S. military is the best-trained, most effective fighting force the world has ever known. And the conduct of the vast majority of our service members makes Americans rightfully proud. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill