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

Other quotes by Claire McCaskill

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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Government
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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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Medical
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. – Walter Bagehot

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Politics

I was in elective politics for 24 years. Ive made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and Im enjoying them. – Al Gore

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Politics

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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Politics

I cry, sometimes, because Im not 20 years younger, and Im not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. – Oriana Fallaci

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Politics

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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Im very much afraid of being mad – thats my one fear. – Sting

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Fear

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. – Roger Moore

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Humor

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nations pockets of poverty. – Jack Kemp

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