Latest Claire McCaskill Quotes from Interviews

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• Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.

  Claire McCaskill

  Done

  Source: www.npr.org

• I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I just don't think that's the direction we should be going in our country. The 1 percent's doing very well in America. They don't need more help. But Medicaid does.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

• I've tried for years to get Republicans to help us fix some of the mistakes that we made in the Affordable Care Act. There are things we can do to shore up the exchanges, to make those pools healthier, to bring down costs. I would like to see us work together on that.

  Claire McCaskill

  Mistake, Working Together, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic illness or a traumatic impact on their health. And those bills are paid by the hospital who then passes those costs on. They do not have a magic fairy paying the bills for people who show up without insurance. Those bills are passed on to all the people in our country that do have insurance. That's why this bill is not going to break the cycle of higher premiums - because we're going to have fewer people insured.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think we have got to call out the Republicans, where their walk doesn't match their talk, and I think we also have to make sure that we communicate clearly that we are the party that cares deeply in our core about working people in this country.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.

  Claire McCaskill

  Coal Miners, America, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.

  Claire McCaskill

  United States, Sacred, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I know this, that there were thousands and thousands of hours given to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server and Benghazi. It seems to me we need bipartisanship now to look at exactly what happened in this election and exactly the things that people like James Comey did and put it in context to make sure we have all the facts, because I don't think anyone is comfortable with how this election played out.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• We have had a lot of whistle-blowing going on out of the Department of Homeland Security, low morale. I want to make sure [John Francis Kelly] understands the agency he's stepping into. So I'll reserve judgment until after confirmation hearings.

  Claire McCaskill

  Agency, Want, Hearing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Issues, Waiting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• They [people from the Donald Trump cabinet] haven't had experience in the areas that they're being asked to manage in a very complicated world and a very complicated government.

  Claire McCaskill

  Government, Complicated World, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that's true for many of the appointments to [Donald] Trump's cabinet.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Worry, Cabinets

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• First of all, Donald Trump cabinet or - I call it the 3-G cabinet, Goldman, generals and gazillionaires. And I think it's one of the things that for someone who has worked around the world for profit, it is different than working around the world to make sure we have strong alliances and to make sure that we are in the strongest position to protect our country.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, Hands, Community

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

  Claire McCaskill

  Impact, Trying, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• By the way, this should be not only about protecting us going forward but this is a form of warfare for Vladimir Putin, who is a thug and a bully and has the friends around the globe that we don't want to be friends with.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thug, Bully, Warfare

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I think Donald Trump can take major steps towards reassuring the American people that there can't even be appearance of impropriety for pay-to-play schemes under his administration.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I just think it's weird that Donald Trump wants to be an executive producer of a TV show while he's President of the United States. I agree with Newt Gingrich. He doesn't have to do that.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Tv Shows, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Running, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person's life when they have been falsely accused. Kirsten [Gillibrand] and I are not unaware that that is an issue we need to be concerned about, and that's why we have made changes in the legislation to address not just the rights of the victim, the accuser, but also of the accused.

  Claire McCaskill

  Impact, Rights, Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

• I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

  Claire McCaskill

  Fighting, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it.

  Claire McCaskill

  Hands, Police, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  College, Play, Judging

  Source: www.elle.com

• The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out there, being able to commit these crimes. I want them to go to prison. But if you understand this crime and you understand what happens in the reporting of this crime and the support that a victim does or does not get, you realize that our legislation increases the likelihood that a young woman will go to the police in a timely manner and that the police will investigate and that they will be able to administer real justice in the criminal system.

  Claire McCaskill

  Real, School, Justice

  Source: www.elle.com