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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.

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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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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There are three legs of the stool spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.
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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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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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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 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'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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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'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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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
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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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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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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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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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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 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'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 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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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
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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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