Claire McCaskill: “The debt limit has to be raised. The President of the United States is asking us to raise the debt limit.”

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.

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.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.