104 Quotes by 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?

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

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.

Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

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.

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

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

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.

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.