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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. "
Claire McCaskill
Child
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Teachers
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" I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC. "
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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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Doing
Hard
Job
" 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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Think
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" You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress. "
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Offend
Order
Progress
" 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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Think
Government
Long
" 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
Country
Give
Government
" I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. "
Claire McCaskill
Think
Bad
Habit
" 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. "
Claire McCaskill
Sometimes
Independence
Party
" You never know what'll happen in politics. "
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Know
Never
" I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington. "
Claire McCaskill
Day
Independent
Washington
" 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
Justice
Job
Fight
" 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. "
Claire McCaskill
Mean
Own
Right
" 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
Government
Civil Rights
Rights
" 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
Senators
Even
Grades
" We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities. "
Claire McCaskill
Young
Need
Law Enforcement
" When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care. "
Claire McCaskill
Single
Care
Mom
" Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. "
Claire McCaskill
Pro-Choice
Political
Always
" 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
Medical
Women
Think
" 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. "
Claire McCaskill
Rules
People
Think
" Well, I'm wrestling alligators. "
Claire McCaskill
Wrestling
Alligators
Well
" 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. "
Claire McCaskill
Mark
Working
Process
" 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
World
Force
Service
" 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
Look
History
Great
" No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.' "
Claire McCaskill
Commander
Ground
Say
" 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. "
Claire McCaskill
Important
Security
Mom
" 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
Think
Happy
People
" All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well. "
Claire McCaskill
Movies
Where
Seem
" 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
Experience
Myself
Mother
" 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
Way
Security
Social
" 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
Need
Job
American