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

Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
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United States Senator
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Missouri
Claire Conner McCaskill
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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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The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
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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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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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I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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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'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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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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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 believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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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I've tried for years to get Republicans to help us fix some of the mistakes that we made in the Affordable Care Act. There are things we can do to shore up the exchanges, to make those pools healthier, to bring down costs. I would like to see us work together on that.
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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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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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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'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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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
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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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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.
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