Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
Claire Conner McCaskillis an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the senior United States Senator from Missouri. The first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri in her own right, she defeated Republican incumbent Jim Talent in the 2006 election, by a margin of 49.6% to 47.3%. She became the state's senior U.S. Senator upon the retirement of Kit Bond in 2011 and won a bid for re-election in 2012, defeating Republican Todd Akin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
I have fought the establishment, run primaries, my entire career. I think that for Planned Parenthood or NARAL or the Human Rights Campaign to be considered the establishment, somebody`s not paying close attention to how American politics works.
I am a small-town girl.
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.
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.
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.
When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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.
If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
You never know what'll happen in politics.
We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.