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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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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.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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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.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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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.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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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.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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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.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.
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Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
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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.
