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Claire McCaskill Quotes

Claire McCaskill quotes

American Politician July 24, 1953

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Claire McCaskill quote: "Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and..."
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill quote: "The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much..."
The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. 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
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
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 think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time. Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill quote: "I am a small-town girl."
I am a small-town girl. Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill quote: "I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of..."
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. 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 law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. 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
Claire McCaskill quote: "All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well."
All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well. 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
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
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

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