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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.
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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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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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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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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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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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
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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 been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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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 believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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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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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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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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