Quotes from Claire McCaskill

After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

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.

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't 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.

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 wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

The U.S. military is the best-trained, most effective fighting force the world has ever known. And the conduct of the vast majority of our service members makes Americans rightfully proud.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't 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.

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.

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.