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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.

Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
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If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
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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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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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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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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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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.
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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've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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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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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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I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.
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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?
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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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