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
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
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.
I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
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.
