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Claire McCaskill Quotes

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.

– Claire McCaskill

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that’s where women have to break through.

– Claire McCaskill

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.

– Claire McCaskill

After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

– Claire McCaskill

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.

– Claire McCaskill

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

– Claire McCaskill

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I’m not sure that our federal government can afford that.

– Claire McCaskill

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

– Claire McCaskill

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

– Claire McCaskill

When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

– Claire McCaskill

You never know what’ll happen in politics.

– Claire McCaskill

I don’t know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

– Claire McCaskill

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

– Claire McCaskill

As a member of the Aging Committee, I’m no stranger to fighting for America’s seniors.

– Claire McCaskill

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.

– Claire McCaskill

I am a small-town girl.

– Claire McCaskill

You know, we’ve got to be responsible about our debt. We don’t want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

– Claire McCaskill

It’s very American, making a lot of money.

– Claire McCaskill

I’m asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

– Claire McCaskill

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system – the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

– Claire McCaskill

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?

– Claire McCaskill

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

– Claire McCaskill

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

– Claire McCaskill

All the movies where I play nice guys don’t seem to do very well.

– Claire McCaskill

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.

– Claire McCaskill

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn’t so much show a lot love for the moderates.

– Claire McCaskill

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.

– Claire McCaskill

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.

– Claire McCaskill

If you look through history, all of the great work we’ve done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

– Claire McCaskill

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I’m going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that’s only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.

– Claire McCaskill

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