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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
Claire McCaskill
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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
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Claire Conner McCaskill
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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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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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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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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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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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If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
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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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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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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 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 believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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'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'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'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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