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I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.

~Cindy Sheehan

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People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

~Cindy Sheehan

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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

Topics: Against Any Appear Compromise Hang Middle Moderate Moderates More Now Out Party Regularity Republican Republican Party Right Some Try Vote Welcoming

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I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Against Am Because Call Frequency Got Independence Independent Just Like Party Remind See Some Some Things Sometimes Them Things Try Voted Wrong I Am I See

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I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Against Aware Country Far Had Left Me Only Right Same Same Time Senator States Time Tv United United States Up

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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.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: After Against Bent Efforts Fight Get Harder Holding Industry Input Led Legislation Lending Make Mortgage Pass Predatory Protects Seniors Stood Up Vote Would

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Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

~Claire Messud

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As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Able Against Age Any Approaches Back Certain Circumstances Come Course Even Fantasies Inevitably Intention Limitations May Middle Middle Age Our Planned Realization Realized Set Ship Thwarted Up Us Will

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It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.

~Claire Messud

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When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.

~Clara Shih

Topics: Against Along Beginning Bigger Definition Early Else Established Everyone Everyone Else Except Further Hard Hard Work Hours In The Beginning Long Long Hours More Nothing Odds Own Requires Resources Shortcuts Startups Succeed Swim Talents Than Upstream Win Work You Your

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