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" 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

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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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

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

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

Claire McCaskill

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

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

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Claire McCaskill

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

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

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

Claire McCaskill

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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. "

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

" 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

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

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. "

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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