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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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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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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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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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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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Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.
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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 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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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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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.
Claire McCaskill
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.
Claire McCaskill
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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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
Claire McCaskill
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.
Claire McCaskill
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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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.
Claire McCaskill
Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.
Claire McCaskill
I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.
Claire McCaskill
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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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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