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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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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 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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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've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
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