104 Quotes by Claire McCaskill

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    You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel like they have to have been perfect in order to have anybody believe them. They think nobody will believe them unless a stranger jumped out from behind a bush with a knife - not that they got too drunk and that a guy they thought they knew, you know, took advantage of them in a physical, assaultive way.

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    If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.

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    Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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