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

Claire McCaskill

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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. "

Claire McCaskill

" I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea. "

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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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

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" Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings. "

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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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" 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'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

" 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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" 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

" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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

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

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

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

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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