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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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Missouri
Claire Conner McCaskill
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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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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 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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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 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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I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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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The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
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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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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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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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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
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