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I am a small-town girl.
What? You don't trust me?
Well, Im wrestling alligators.
Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
You never know what'll happen in politics.
I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.
You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.
I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.
Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.
If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'
No commander in chief would ever say, "I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."
[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.
The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
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.
I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.
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.
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.
When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.
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.
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.
The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically alter Medicare and Social Security.
We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing things that I think are damaging.
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.
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
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.
I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.