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" 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. "

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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. "

Claire McCaskill

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care. "

" No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.' "

" I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time. "

" I am a small-town girl. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Well, I'm wrestling alligators. "

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

" It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams. "

Claire McCaskill

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "