Claire McCaskill Quotes

• You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I’m accountable to the people of Missouri.

  Claire McCaskill

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• Well, I’m wrestling alligators.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Claire McCaskill

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

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• Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don’t have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

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

  Claire McCaskill

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  Tags in Nice, Play

• 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 have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

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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 am a small-town girl.

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• 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.

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

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• I think I’m the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won’t take earmarks.

  Claire McCaskill

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• I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I’ve just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

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• I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

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Claire McCaskill (35)

Birth:	24th July, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Claire Conner McCaskill was born in Rolla, Missouri. She is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the senior United States Senator from Missouri. Before her election to the U.S. Senate, McCaskill served as the State Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007. She previously served as Jackson County Prosecutor from 1993 to 1998 and as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989. She graduating in 1975 with a B.A. in political science. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978. In the summer of 1974, before graduating from the University of Missouri, McCaskill studied at the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University.

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