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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.
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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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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For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.
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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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Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.
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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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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'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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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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The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
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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 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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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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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.
Claire McCaskill
I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
Claire McCaskill
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
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.
Claire McCaskill
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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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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