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Claire McCaskill

Claire Conner McCaskill (/məˈkæskəl/; born July 24, 1953) is an American politician who serves as the senior United States Senator from Missouri, a seat she was first elected to in 2006. She is the second female U.S. Senator from Missouri after Jean Carnahan who served from her appointment in 2001 until 2002, and the first female US Senator from Missouri to be elected in her own right.

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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?

Carolina, Convince, Home, Labor Day, Parties, Party

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

Americans, Fact, People, Reality, Thinking

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

Election, Elections, Impact, Trying, Vladimir

First of all, Donald Trump cabinet or - I call it the 3-G cabinet, Goldman, generals and gazillionaires. And I think it's one of the things that for someone who has worked around the world for profit, it is different than working around the world to make sure we have strong alliances and to make sure that we are in the strongest position to protect our country.

Country, Goldman, Strong, Things, Thinking

I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

Counterproductive, Fighting, Legislation, Prosecution, Successful, Thinking

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.

Important, President, Thing, Think, Thinking, Wife

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Ifs, Mailroom, Public Sector, Sector, Spend, Start

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

Door, Doors, Party, Tea

I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.

Election, Make, Process, Sacred, Trump, United States

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.

Fight, Fighting, Grandkids, Kids, Protect, Want

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.

Different, Father, Genius, Happen, Ideas, Makeup

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.

Drinking, Fault, Heartbreaking, Like, Mean, Young

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.

Beginning, Campus, Challenges, Men, Thinking

You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel like they have to have been perfect in order to have anybody believe them. They think nobody will believe them unless a stranger jumped out from behind a bush with a knife - not that they got too drunk and that a guy they thought they knew, you know, took advantage of them in a physical, assaultive way.

Assaultive, Believe, Exercise, Thinking, Thought, Took

I just think it's weird that Donald Trump wants to be an executive producer of a TV show while he's President of the United States. I agree with Newt Gingrich. He doesn't have to do that.

President, Show, States, Thinking, Tv Shows, United

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

America, Hard, House, Reality, Rest, White

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.

College, Educator, Executioner, Judging, Play, Unable

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

Alligators, Wells, Wrestling

I am a small-town girl.

Girl, Small Town, Towns

I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I just don't think that's the direction we should be going in our country. The 1 percent's doing very well in America. They don't need more help. But Medicaid does.

Country, Cutting, Excited, People, Thinking, Wealthy

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