Claire McCaskill Quotes

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.

Claire McCaskill

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Better
  • Politicians

• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Women
  • Admit

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • Democracy

• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Progress

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Rules

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Music
  • Country
  • Support

• Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

  

  Anita Borg
  • People
  • Women
  • Real

• I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Feminist

• The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.

  

  Bertha von Suttner
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Earth

• I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

  

  Mark Burnett

• 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.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Women
  • Country