Claire McCaskill Quotes

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• I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
• 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…
• I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
• 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…
• 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…
• The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.
• What? You don't trust me?
• It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.
• Well, Im wrestling alligators.
• 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.
• 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…
• When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
• 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…
• Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
• 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…
• I am a small-town girl.
• You never know what'll happen in politics.
• Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
• 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…
• No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.

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