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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
Lawyer
Politician
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United States Senator
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Missouri
Claire Conner McCaskill
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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 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'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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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 believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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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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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Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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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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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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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