Claire McCaskill: “There had been a number of high-profile media reports beginning in November 2009 concerning the safety of Bannister.”

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's focused on himself?

I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.