Claire McCaskill famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Party #Home #Labor Day
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
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
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.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Kids #Fighting #Want
I am a small-town girl.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Girl #Towns #Small Town
You never know what'll happen in politics.
-- Claire McCaskill
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
-- Claire McCaskill
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 it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Reality #Thinking #People
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Guy #Chiefs
All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Nice #Play #Guy
Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Problem #Symptoms
I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Asking #Pacs #Folks
When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Party #Doors #Tea
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
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
I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Independent
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

#Ideas #Law #Guy
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Thinking #Lasts #Defeated
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
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.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Party #Trying #Welcome
The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Political #Shows #Extremes
What? You don't trust me?
-- Claire McCaskill

#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.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Distance #Party #Mind
Well, Im wrestling alligators.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Wrestling #Alligators #Wells
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.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Jobs #Focus #Campaigns
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

#Thinking #Government #Long

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