I am a small-town girl.
You never know what'll happen in politics.
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.
I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'
The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
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.
Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?
I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.
We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.
There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.
You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.
All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.
I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing things that I think are damaging.
It's very American, making a lot of money.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
