Claire McCaskill: “I love that anybody makes money in America. I endorse heartily the free market system.”

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.

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.

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.