Quote by Claire McCaskill
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans tr

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasnt responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. – Claire McCaskill

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Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We dont 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

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I think there are certain folks in Missouri that dont trust government. And they havent trusted government for a long time. – Claire McCaskill

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