Claire McCaskill: “I fully support the Secretary's objectives in reducing the duplication, overhead, and excess in the Defense enterprise.”

I have won when the polls said I couldn't and I have lost when the polls said I would win, so I am not a big believer in all of the horse race stuff.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.

The culture wars? I've got to tell you, this time around, bring it, because I think that Democrats want to talk about abortion, and they want to talk about guns.

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