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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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

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

" I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a small-town girl. "

" 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. "

" Well, I'm wrestling alligators. "