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I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
Lawyer
Politician
Prosecutor
United States Senator
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Missouri
Claire Conner McCaskill
Independent
Arrived
Washington

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What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don't report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common.
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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
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For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.
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Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.
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I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.
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I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that's true for many of the appointments to [Donald] Trump's cabinet.
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It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.
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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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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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They [people from the Donald Trump cabinet] haven't had experience in the areas that they're being asked to manage in a very complicated world and a very complicated government.
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The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
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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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If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.
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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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Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.
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By the way, this should be not only about protecting us going forward but this is a form of warfare for Vladimir Putin, who is a thug and a bully and has the friends around the globe that we don't want to be friends with.
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I do not begrudge Bill Clinton's working for his wife, but the one thing I would say is really important to President Clinton to think about right now, because of the larger megaphone he has as a former president, he really needs to be careful with the truth.
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I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.
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