Claire McCaskill Quotes

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 now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

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

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

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

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

You never know what'll happen in politics.

What? You don't trust me?

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

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

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

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

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

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

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

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

I think Donald Trump can take major steps towards reassuring the American people that there can't even be appearance of impropriety for pay-to-play schemes under his administration.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

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

I am a small-town girl.

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.

They [people from the Donald Trump cabinet] haven't had experience in the areas that they're being asked to manage in a very complicated world and a very complicated government.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

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

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.

Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.