Claire McCaskill: “I fundamentally believe that, as somebody who has had really a 50-yard line seat on contracting for 5 years in the…”

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.

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.