Claire McCaskill: “Especially when we are trying to keep our contractors from getting killed, because we are paying off the bad guys to…”

I think more importantly, what we're going to see, and this is what I really do believe, is that will we defy history by having the kind of turnout with the party who holds power and holds the presidency, will we have the kind of turnout…

I think the filibuster is on life support. And I think if the Democrats pick up more seats, I think it will probably go away.

You don't take away a right that has been around for 50 years, and then you don't have a party go to the extremes of trying to make sure rape victims have to have forced birth.

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.