Claire McCaskill: “I think I want to start out by just making a statement that all car rental companies sell cars and the vast majority of…”

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.

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

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.

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.