Claire McCaskill

Well, I'm wrestling alligators.

— Claire McCaskill

You never know what'll happen in politics.

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

What? You don't trust me?

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

I am a small-town girl.

— Claire McCaskill

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

— Claire McCaskill

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to…

— Claire McCaskill

For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting…

— Claire McCaskill

I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.

— Claire McCaskill

I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing…

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

— 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…

— Claire McCaskill

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

— 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…

— Claire McCaskill

There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of…

— Claire McCaskill

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that…

— Claire McCaskill

First of all, Donald Trump cabinet or - I call it the 3-G cabinet, Goldman, generals and gazillionaires. And I think it's…

— Claire McCaskill

I've tried for years to get Republicans to help us fix some of the mistakes that we made in the Affordable Care…

— Claire McCaskill

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in…

— Claire McCaskill

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we…

— Claire McCaskill

We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them…

— Claire McCaskill

I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic…

— Claire McCaskill

I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support…

— Claire McCaskill

There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person's life when…

— Claire McCaskill

Some of the morays have held on. When I was in school, I remember asking the question, "Why is it that whenever…

— Claire McCaskill

I know this, that there were thousands and thousands of hours given to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server and Benghazi. It seems to…

— Claire McCaskill

It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity.…

— Claire McCaskill

The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out…

— Claire McCaskill

You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel…

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Claire McCaskill