Claire McCaskill: “I learned a lot about what seniors are afraid of in my State, what they are struggling with, and what the challenges are…”

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.

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.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.

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