Claire McCaskill: “I perfectly well understand that the problems we are going to talk about today in contracting apply to every Federal…”

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.

This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.

This is never a referendum. Presidential elections, by the time they run around, is always, 'well, who do you like slightly better than the two you don't like?' So it is a binary choice.