Claire McCaskill Quotes

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

Claire McCaskill

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• The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Nature

• There is more to life than show business.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Life
  • Business
  • More

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Success

• Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • More
  • Rejoice

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Power
  • War

• In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Education
  • College
  • Purpose

• It is possible for political forces to agree.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Political
  • Possible
  • Agree

• Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Children

• Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Taken

• The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • English
  • Cold

• Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good

• ...if you have so many lawyers, they have to find business, which sometimes they have to create. Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Country
  • Business

• Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Great
  • Women
  • Nature

• Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Give
  • Have

• America's men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they've earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.

  

  John Delaney
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

  

  David Bennun
  • Literature
  • Prove
  • Grammy

• No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

  

  Claire McCaskill