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If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
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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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 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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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 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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I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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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.
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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 believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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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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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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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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 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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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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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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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 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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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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