Claire McCaskill Quotes

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

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Doors, Tea

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• I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic illness or a traumatic impact on their health. And those bills are paid by the hospital who then passes those costs on. They do not have a magic fairy paying the bills for people who show up without insurance. Those bills are passed on to all the people in our country that do have insurance. That's why this bill is not going to break the cycle of higher premiums - because we're going to have fewer people insured.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Reality, White, America

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• I know this, that there were thousands and thousands of hours given to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server and Benghazi. It seems to me we need bipartisanship now to look at exactly what happened in this election and exactly the things that people like James Comey did and put it in context to make sure we have all the facts, because I don't think anyone is comfortable with how this election played out.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think we have got to call out the Republicans, where their walk doesn't match their talk, and I think we also have to make sure that we communicate clearly that we are the party that cares deeply in our core about working people in this country.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Father, Makeup, Ideas

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Hands, Community

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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

  Done

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You never know what'll happen in politics.

  Claire McCaskill

  Happens, Knows

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Law, Ideas, Guy

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• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

  Claire McCaskill

  College, Chance, Should

  Source: www.elle.com

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Mistake, Working Together, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  United States, Sacred, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Three

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• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Tv Shows, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

  Claire McCaskill

  Independent, Has Beens

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. November 6, 2010.

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• No commander in chief would ever say, "I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."

  Claire McCaskill

  Guy, Chiefs, Commander In Chief

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 13, 2008.

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Independent, Independence

  "Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2010.

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Worry, Cabinets

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

  Claire McCaskill

  Perfect, Prison, Judgment

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

  Claire McCaskill

  Political, Shows, Extremes

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

  Claire McCaskill

  Asking, Pacs, Folks

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 23, 2012.

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

  Claire McCaskill

  Careers, Issues, Choices

  "McCaskill: Senate Could Live With Stupak Amendment" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, United States, Tvs

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