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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.
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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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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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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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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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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The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
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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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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
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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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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'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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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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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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