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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. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#country #decided #dozen #even #i

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#any #appear #compromise #hang #i

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#been #candidate #career #controversy #entire

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. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#elected #focus #getting #i #i think

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budgets #council #currently #fiscal #fiscal year

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budget #drought #ever #faced #farmers

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#cases #committee #congress #exploitation #human

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy. ↗

— Diana Ross

#called #energy #family #full #i

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#campaign finance #campaign finance reform #culture #devastating #finance