Claire McCaskill: “What we are saying is we have got to make sure that you really deserve a nurse at home, but we do not need to make sure…”

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.

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 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.

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