“When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.”

American politician and lawyer

Amy Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer. She has served as the senior United States senator from Minnesota since 2007, and is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the state's affiliate of the Democratic Party. Before entering the Senate, she was county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota, from 1999 to 2007. She is also the Democratic nominee in the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial election.